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[PATCH 12/15] manpages: italicize gitk's name (where it was in teletype font)

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Date
Jul 3, 2008, 05:49 UTC
Message-ID
<Pine.GSO.4.62.0807030045340.16085@harper.uchicago.edu>
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<Pine.GSO.4.62.0807022322380.16085@harper.uchicago.edu>

The name `gitk` is sometimes meant to be entered at the command prompt, but most uses are just referring to the program with that name (not the incantation to start it).

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
---
 Documentation/git-bisect.txt       |    2 +-
 Documentation/git-gui.txt          |    4 ++--
 Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt |    2 +-
 Documentation/gittutorial.txt      |    2 +-
 4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
index c794914..c7981ef 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ During the bisection process, you can say
 $ git bisect visualize
 ------------
 
-to see the currently remaining suspects in `gitk`.  `visualize` is a bit
+to see the currently remaining suspects in 'gitk'.  `visualize` is a bit
 too long to type and `view` is provided as a synonym.
 
 If 'DISPLAY' environment variable is not set, 'git-log' is used
diff --git a/Documentation/git-gui.txt b/Documentation/git-gui.txt
index f067772..a73201d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-gui.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-gui.txt
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ on allowing users to make changes to their repository by making
 new commits, amending existing ones, creating branches, performing
 local merges, and fetching/pushing to remote repositories.
 
-Unlike `gitk`, 'git-gui' focuses on commit generation
+Unlike 'gitk', 'git-gui' focuses on commit generation
 and single file annotation and does not show project history.
-It does however supply menu actions to start a `gitk` session from
+It does however supply menu actions to start a 'gitk' session from
 within 'git-gui'.
 
 'git-gui' is known to work on all popular UNIX systems, Mac OS X,
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
index 2bbe7de..3eba973 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
@@ -878,7 +878,7 @@ means: normally it will just show you your current `HEAD`) and their
 histories. You can also see exactly how they came to be from a common
 source.
 
-Anyway, let's exit `gitk` (`^Q` or the File menu), and decide that we want
+Anyway, let's exit 'gitk' (`^Q` or the File menu), and decide that we want
 to merge the work we did on the `mybranch` branch into the `master`
 branch (which is currently our `HEAD` too). To do that, there's a nice
 script called 'git-merge', which wants to know which branches you want
diff --git a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
index 930f690..85abc6e 100644
--- a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
@@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ then merged back together, the order in which 'git-log' presents
 those commits is meaningless.
 
 Most projects with multiple contributors (such as the linux kernel,
-or git itself) have frequent merges, and `gitk` does a better job of
+or git itself) have frequent merges, and 'gitk' does a better job of
 visualizing their history.  For example,
 
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  1. 0/7 Some superficial documentation changesJonathan Nieder, Jun 30, 2008
  2. 1/7 Documentation: fix links to tutorials and other new manual pagesJonathan Nieder, Jun 30, 2008
  3. Christian CouderJun 30, 2008
  4. 2/7 whitespace fix in Documentation/git-repack.txtJonathan Nieder, Jun 30, 2008
  5. 3/7 Documentation: complicate example of "man git-command"Jonathan Nieder, Jun 30, 2008
  6. Christian CouderJun 30, 2008
  7. J. Bruce FieldsJul 1, 2008
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 1, 2008
  9. J. Bruce FieldsJul 2, 2008
  10. Jonathan NiederJul 3, 2008
  11. J. Bruce FieldsJul 3, 2008
  12. Christian CouderJul 3, 2008
  13. Junio C HamanoJul 3, 2008
  14. 4/7 git-daemon(1): don't assume git-daemon is in /usr/binJonathan Nieder, Jun 30, 2008
  15. 5/7 Documentation: prepare to be consistent about "git-" versus "git "Jonathan Nieder, Jun 30, 2008
  16. 6/7 Documentation: be consistent about "git-" versus "git "Jonathan Nieder, Jun 30, 2008
  17. 7/7 Documentation formatting and cleanupJonathan Nieder, Jun 30, 2008
  18. Olivier MarinJul 1, 2008
  19. Junio C HamanoJul 1, 2008
  20. Jonathan NiederJul 3, 2008
  21. Jonathan NiederJul 3, 2008
  22. Junio C HamanoJul 1, 2008
  23. Jonathan NiederJul 3, 2008
  24. 01/15 git-format-patch(1): fix stray \ in outputJonathan Nieder, Jul 3, 2008
  25. 02/15 Documentation: fix gitlinksJonathan Nieder, Jul 3, 2008
  26. 03/15 manpages: fix bogus whitespaceJonathan Nieder, Jul 3, 2008
  27. Junio C HamanoJul 3, 2008
  28. Jonathan NiederJul 4, 2008
  29. 04/15 git(1): add commaJonathan Nieder, Jul 3, 2008
  30. 05/15 git-commit(1): depersonalize descriptionJonathan Nieder, Jul 3, 2008
  31. 06/15 Documentation: rewrap to prepare for "git-" vs "git " changeJonathan Nieder, Jul 3, 2008
  32. 07/15 Documentation: more "git-" versus "git " changesJonathan Nieder, Jul 3, 2008
  33. 08/15 gitdiffcore(7): fix awkward wordingJonathan Nieder, Jul 3, 2008
  34. 09/15 manpages: italicize command names in synopsesJonathan Nieder, Jul 3, 2008
  35. 10/15 manpages: italicize command namesJonathan Nieder, Jul 3, 2008
  36. 11/15 manpages: italicize git command names (which were in teletype font)Jonathan Nieder, Jul 3, 2008
  37. 12/15 manpages: italicize gitk's name (where it was in teletype font)Jonathan Nieder, Jul 3, 2008
  38. 13/15 manpages: italicize nongit command names (if they are in teletype font)Jonathan Nieder, Jul 3, 2008
  39. 14/15 manpages: italicize git subcommand names (which were in teletype font)Jonathan Nieder, Jul 3, 2008
  40. 15/15 manpages: use teletype font for sample command linesJonathan Nieder, Jul 3, 2008

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