The symmetric difference or merge-base operator ... as used by
rev-list and diff is actually three period characters. If it
gets replaced by an ellipsis glyph in the manual, that would
stop readers from copying and pasting it.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 2 +-
Documentation/git-push.txt | 2 +-
Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 2 +-
Documentation/rev-list-options.txt | 2 +-
4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 1bacd2e..e015373 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ As a special case, the `"@\{-N\}"` syntax for the N-th last branch
checks out the branch (instead of detaching). You may also specify
`-` which is synonymous with `"@\{-1\}"`.
+
-As a further special case, you may use `"A...B"` as a shortcut for the
+As a further special case, you may use `"A\...B"` as a shortcut for the
merge base of `A` and `B` if there is exactly one merge base. You can
leave out at most one of `A` and `B`, in which case it defaults to `HEAD`.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
index 658ff2f..020955f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ summary::
For a successfully pushed ref, the summary shows the old and new
values of the ref in a form suitable for using as an argument to
`git log` (this is `<old>..<new>` in most cases, and
- `<old>...<new>` for forced non-fast-forward updates).
+ `<old>\...<new>` for forced non-fast-forward updates).
+
For a failed update, more details are given:
+
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index be23ad2..2ed62ca 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ OPTIONS
<upstream>. May be any valid commit, and not just an
existing branch name.
+
-As a special case, you may use "A...B" as a shortcut for the
+As a special case, you may use "A\...B" as a shortcut for the
merge base of A and B if there is exactly one merge base. You can
leave out at most one of A and B, in which case it defaults to HEAD.
diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index cc562a0..e2237ae 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ excluded from the output.
reflog entries from the most recent one to older ones.
When this option is used you cannot specify commits to
exclude (that is, '{caret}commit', 'commit1..commit2',
- nor 'commit1...commit2' notations cannot be used).
+ nor 'commit1\...commit2' notations cannot be used).
+
With '\--pretty' format other than oneline (for obvious reasons),
this causes the output to have two extra lines of information
--
1.7.2.2.536.g42dab.dirty
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