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patchdoc: config: replace backtick with apostrophe for possessive

Subject: [PATCH] doc: config: replace backtick with apostrophe for possessive

## tl;dr

2 messages between Aug 24, 2025 and Aug 25, 2025. Diffs are folded; open one to read it.

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kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com· Aug 24, 2025, 19:46 UTC · lore
From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>

Revert back to “Git's” which was used before d30c5cc4592 (doc: convert git-mergetool options to new synopsis style, 2025-05-25) accidentally changed it.

Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
---
Notes (series):
    I didn’t find any other occurrences.
    
    Demo with this commit merged into ‘master’:
    
        $ git grep -e '`s\b' -e '`re\b'
        Documentation/MyFirstObjectWalk.adoc:block under the `#include`s in `revision.h`. The most likely ones to be set in
        Documentation/ReviewingGuidelines.adoc:cooking" emails & replies can be found using the query `s:"What's cooking"` on
        Documentation/ReviewingGuidelines.adoc:like `s:"PATCH" -s:"Re:"`. You can browse these results for topics relevant to
        Documentation/git-add.adoc:You also could say `s` or `sta` or `status` above as long as the
        Documentation/git-mailinfo.adoc:*	Leading `Re:`, `re:`, and `:`.
        add-interactive.c: * It is implemented in the form of a pair of `string_list`s, the first one
        add-patch.c:			 * appended to the strbuf `s->plain`.
        add-patch.c:				 * `s->buf` still contains the part of the
        compat/regex/regexec.c:	string `s' and transit to `b':
        reftable/record.h:/* Advance `s.buf` by `n`, and decrease length. */
        t/t0013/shattered-1.pdf matches
        t/t0040-parse-options.sh:	error: switch `s'\'' requires a value
        t/t1092-sparse-checkout-compatibility.sh:	# The following `git reset`s result in updating the index on files with
    
    On ‘master’:
    
        $ git grep -e '`s\b' -e '`re\b'
        Documentation/MyFirstObjectWalk.adoc:block under the `#include`s in `revision.h`. The most likely ones to be set in
        Documentation/ReviewingGuidelines.adoc:cooking" emails & replies can be found using the query `s:"What's cooking"` on
        Documentation/ReviewingGuidelines.adoc:like `s:"PATCH" -s:"Re:"`. You can browse these results for topics relevant to
        Documentation/config/mergetool.adoc:	are the versions of the file from before Git`s conflict
        Documentation/git-add.adoc:You also could say `s` or `sta` or `status` above as long as the
        Documentation/git-mailinfo.adoc:*	Leading `Re:`, `re:`, and `:`.
        add-interactive.c: * It is implemented in the form of a pair of `string_list`s, the first one
        add-patch.c:			 * appended to the strbuf `s->plain`.
        add-patch.c:				 * `s->buf` still contains the part of the
        compat/regex/regexec.c:	string `s' and transit to `b':
        reftable/record.h:/* Advance `s.buf` by `n`, and decrease length. */
        Binary file t/t0013/shattered-1.pdf matches
        t/t0040-parse-options.sh:	error: switch `s'\'' requires a value
        t/t1092-sparse-checkout-compatibility.sh:	# The following `git reset`s result in updating the index on files with
 Documentation/config/mergetool.adoc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Show changes to Documentation/config/mergetool.adoc +1 −1
diff --git a/Documentation/config/mergetool.adoc b/Documentation/config/mergetool.adoc
index 6be506145c1..7064f5a462c 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/mergetool.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/config/mergetool.adoc
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ endif::[]
 	During a merge, Git will automatically resolve as many conflicts as
 	possible and write the `$MERGED` file containing conflict markers around
 	any conflicts that it cannot resolve; `$LOCAL` and `$REMOTE` normally
-	are the versions of the file from before Git`s conflict
+	are the versions of the file from before Git's conflict
 	resolution. This flag causes `$LOCAL` and `$REMOTE` to be overwritten so
 	that only the unresolved conflicts are presented to the merge tool. Can
 	be configured per-tool via the `mergetool.<tool>.hideResolved`

base-commit: b983aaabc8b8cf406686f23689dda7e226f67e44
-- 
2.51.0.103.g04b6f1b0792
Junio C Hamano· Aug 25, 2025, 20:21 UTC · re: kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com · lore

Re: [PATCH] doc: config: replace backtick with apostrophe for possessive

kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com writes:
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> From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
>
> Revert back to “Git's” which was used before d30c5cc4592 (doc: convert
> git-mergetool options to new synopsis style, 2025-05-25) accidentally
> changed it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
> ---
> diff --git a/Documentation/config/mergetool.adoc b/Documentation/config/mergetool.adoc
> index 6be506145c1..7064f5a462c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/config/mergetool.adoc
> +++ b/Documentation/config/mergetool.adoc
> @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ endif::[]
>  	During a merge, Git will automatically resolve as many conflicts as
>  	possible and write the `$MERGED` file containing conflict markers around
>  	any conflicts that it cannot resolve; `$LOCAL` and `$REMOTE` normally
> -	are the versions of the file from before Git`s conflict
> +	are the versions of the file from before Git's conflict
>  	resolution. This flag causes `$LOCAL` and `$REMOTE` to be overwritten so
>  	that only the unresolved conflicts are presented to the merge tool. Can
>  	be configured per-tool via the `mergetool.<tool>.hideResolved`
Obviously correct.  Thanks.

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