In modern documentation, args, placeholders and filenames are monospaced. Apply monospace formatting to these objects. Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@xxxxxxxxx> --- Thanks for catching the omission, Eric. I've gone through the documentation with a fine-tooth comb and caught many more missing instances. Documentation/git-cat-file.txt | 56 +++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt index 8e192d87db..a1c37a9e81 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt @@ -35,42 +35,42 @@ OPTIONS -t:: Instead of the content, show the object type identified by - <object>. + `<object>`. -s:: Instead of the content, show the object size identified by - <object>. + `<object>`. -e:: - Exit with zero status if <object> exists and is a valid - object. If <object> is of an invalid format exit with non-zero and + Exit with zero status if `<object>` exists and is a valid + object. If `<object>` is of an invalid format exit with non-zero and emits an error on stderr. -p:: - Pretty-print the contents of <object> based on its type. + Pretty-print the contents of `<object>` based on its type. <type>:: - Typically this matches the real type of <object> but asking + Typically this matches the real type of `<object>` but asking for a type that can trivially be dereferenced from the given - <object> is also permitted. An example is to ask for a - "tree" with <object> being a commit object that contains it, - or to ask for a "blob" with <object> being a tag object that + `<object>` is also permitted. An example is to ask for a + "tree" with `<object>` being a commit object that contains it, + or to ask for a "blob" with `<object>` being a tag object that points at it. --textconv:: Show the content as transformed by a textconv filter. In this case, - <object> has to be of the form <tree-ish>:<path>, or :<path> in + `<object>` has to be of the form `<tree-ish>:<path>`, or `:<path>` in order to apply the filter to the content recorded in the index at - <path>. + `<path>`. --filters:: Show the content as converted by the filters configured in - the current working tree for the given <path> (i.e. smudge filters, - end-of-line conversion, etc). In this case, <object> has to be of - the form <tree-ish>:<path>, or :<path>. + the current working tree for the given `<path>` (i.e. smudge filters, + end-of-line conversion, etc). In this case, `<object>` has to be of + the form `<tree-ish>:<path>`, or `:<path>`. --path=<path>:: - For use with --textconv or --filters, to allow specifying an object + For use with `--textconv` or `--filters`, to allow specifying an object name and a path separately, e.g. when it is difficult to figure out the revision from which the blob came. @@ -115,15 +115,15 @@ OPTIONS repository. --allow-unknown-type:: - Allow -s or -t to query broken/corrupt objects of unknown type. + Allow `-s` or `-t` to query broken/corrupt objects of unknown type. --follow-symlinks:: - With --batch or --batch-check, follow symlinks inside the + With `--batch` or `--batch-check`, follow symlinks inside the repository when requesting objects with extended SHA-1 expressions of the form tree-ish:path-in-tree. Instead of providing output about the link itself, provide output about the linked-to object. If a symlink points outside the - tree-ish (e.g. a link to /foo or a root-level link to ../foo), + tree-ish (e.g. a link to `/foo` or a root-level link to `../foo`), the portion of the link which is outside the tree will be printed. + @@ -175,15 +175,15 @@ respectively print: OUTPUT ------ -If `-t` is specified, one of the <type>. +If `-t` is specified, one of the `<type>`. -If `-s` is specified, the size of the <object> in bytes. +If `-s` is specified, the size of the `<object>` in bytes. -If `-e` is specified, no output, unless the <object> is malformed. +If `-e` is specified, no output, unless the `<object>` is malformed. -If `-p` is specified, the contents of <object> are pretty-printed. +If `-p` is specified, the contents of `<object>` are pretty-printed. -If <type> is specified, the raw (though uncompressed) contents of the <object> +If `<type>` is specified, the raw (though uncompressed) contents of the `<object>` will be returned. BATCH OUTPUT @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ If a name is specified that might refer to more than one object (an ambiguous sh <object> SP ambiguous LF ------------ -If --follow-symlinks is used, and a symlink in the repository points +If `--follow-symlinks` is used, and a symlink in the repository points outside the repository, then `cat-file` will ignore any custom format and print: @@ -267,11 +267,11 @@ symlink SP <size> LF <symlink> LF ------------ -The symlink will either be absolute (beginning with a /), or relative -to the tree root. For instance, if dir/link points to ../../foo, then -<symlink> will be ../foo. <size> is the size of the symlink in bytes. +The symlink will either be absolute (beginning with a `/`), or relative +to the tree root. For instance, if dir/link points to `../../foo`, then +`<symlink>` will be `../foo`. `<size>` is the size of the symlink in bytes. -If --follow-symlinks is used, the following error messages will be +If `--follow-symlinks` is used, the following error messages will be displayed: ------------ -- 2.30.1.823.g0a3b79fd18
