@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ OPTIONS
-------
`--format=<fmt>`::
- Format of the resulting archive: 'tar' or 'zip'. If this option
+ Format of the resulting archive: `tar` or `zip`. If this option
is not given, and the output file is specified, the format is
inferred from the filename if possible (e.g. writing to "foo.zip"
makes the output to be in the zip format). Otherwise the output
@@ -1355,4 +1355,4 @@ References
- [[[6]]] https://lwn.net/Articles/277872/[Jonathan Corbet. 'Bisection divides users and developers'. LWN.net.]
- [[[7]]] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20071207113734.GA14598@elte.hu/[Ingo Molnar. 'Re: BUG 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha'. Linux-kernel mailing list.]
- [[[8]]] https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-bisect.html[Junio C Hamano and the git-list. 'git-bisect(1) Manual Page'. Linux Kernel Archives.]
-- [[[9]]] https://github.com/Ealdwulf/bbchop[Ealdwulf. 'bbchop'. GitHub.]
+- [[[9]]] https://github.com/Ealdwulf/bbchop[Ealdwulf. `bbchop`. GitHub.]
@@ -1118,7 +1118,7 @@ Output uses the same format as `git ls-tree <tree> -- <path>`:
The <dataref> represents the blob, tree, or commit object at <path>
and can be used in later 'get-mark', 'cat-blob', 'filemodify', or
-'ls' commands.
+`ls` commands.
If there is no file or subtree at that path, `git fast-import` will
instead report
@@ -1164,7 +1164,7 @@ The <feature> part of the command may be any one of the following:
`cat-blob`::
`ls`::
Require that the backend support the 'get-mark', 'cat-blob',
- or 'ls' command respectively.
+ or `ls` command respectively.
Versions of fast-import not supporting the specified command
will exit with a message indicating so.
This lets the import error out early with a clear message,
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ CONFIGURATION
`grep.patternType`::
Set the default matching behavior. Using a value of 'basic', 'extended',
- 'fixed', or 'perl' will enable the `--basic-regexp`, `--extended-regexp`,
+ 'fixed', or `perl` will enable the `--basic-regexp`, `--extended-regexp`,
`--fixed-strings`, or `--perl-regexp` option accordingly, while the
value 'default' will return to the default matching behavior.
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ providing this option will cause it to die.
`-O[<pager>]`::
`--open-files-in-pager[=<pager>]`::
- Open the matching files in the pager (not the output of 'grep').
+ Open the matching files in the pager (not the output of `grep`).
If the pager happens to be `less` or `vi`, and the user
specified only one pattern, the first file is positioned at
the first match automatically. The `pager` argument is
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ If the option `--guides` or `-g` is given, a list of the
Git concept guides is also printed on the standard output.
If a command, or a guide, is given, a manual page for that command or
-guide is brought up. The 'man' program is used by default for this
+guide is brought up. The `man` program is used by default for this
purpose, but this can be overridden by other options or configuration
variables.
@@ -68,11 +68,11 @@ OPTIONS
`-m`::
`--man`::
- Display manual page for the command in the 'man' format. This
+ Display manual page for the command in the `man` format. This
option may be used to override a value set in the
`help.format` configuration variable.
+
-By default the 'man' program will be used to display the manual page,
+By default the `man` program will be used to display the manual page,
but the `man.viewer` configuration variable may be used to choose
other display programs (see below).
@@ -113,13 +113,13 @@ section above and linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1].
man.viewer
~~~~~~~~~~
-The `man.viewer` configuration variable will be checked if the 'man'
+The `man.viewer` configuration variable will be checked if the `man`
format is chosen. The following values are currently supported:
-* "man": use the 'man' program as usual,
-* "woman": use 'emacsclient' to launch the "woman" mode in emacs
- (this only works starting with emacsclient versions 22),
-* "konqueror": use 'kfmclient' to open the man page in a new konqueror
+* `man`: use the `man` program as usual,
+* `woman`: use `emacsclient` to launch the `woman` mode in emacs
+ (this only works starting with `emacsclient` versions 22),
+* `konqueror`: use `kfmclient` to open the man page in a new `konqueror`
tab (see 'Note about konqueror' below).
Values for other tools can be used if there is a corresponding
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ DISPLAY is not set) and in that case emacs' woman mode will be tried.
If everything fails, or if no viewer is configured, the viewer specified
in the `GIT_MAN_VIEWER` environment variable will be tried. If that
-fails too, the 'man' program will be tried anyway.
+fails too, the `man` program will be tried anyway.
man.<tool>.path
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -166,15 +166,15 @@ page passed as arguments.
Note about konqueror
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-When 'konqueror' is specified in the `man.viewer` configuration
-variable, we launch 'kfmclient' to try to open the man page on an
+When `konqueror` is specified in the `man.viewer` configuration
+variable, we launch `kfmclient` to try to open the man page on an
already opened konqueror in a new tab if possible.
For consistency, we also try such a trick if `man.konqueror.path` is
set to something like `A_PATH_TO/konqueror`. That means we will try to
launch `A_PATH_TO/kfmclient` instead.
-If you really want to use 'konqueror', then you can use something like
+If you really want to use `konqueror`, then you can use something like
the following:
------------------------------------------------
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ CONFIGURATION
`sendemail.aliasFileType`::
Format of the file(s) specified in `sendemail.aliasesFile`. Must be
- one of 'mutt', 'mailrc', 'pine', 'elm', or 'gnus', or 'sendmail'.
+ one of `mutt`, `mailrc`, `pine`, `elm`, or `gnus`, or `sendmail`.
+
What an alias file in each format looks like can be found in
the documentation of the email program of the same name. The
@@ -44,17 +44,17 @@ VARIABLES
--nofork`. The order of preference is the `$GIT_EDITOR`
environment variable, then `core.editor` configuration, then
`$VISUAL`, then `$EDITOR`, and then the default chosen at compile
- time, which is usually 'vi'.
+ time, which is usually `vi`.
ifdef::git-default-editor[]
The build you are using chose '{git-default-editor}' as the default.
endif::git-default-editor[]
`GIT_PAGER`::
- Text viewer for use by Git commands (e.g., 'less'). The value
+ Text viewer for use by Git commands (e.g., `less`). The value
is meant to be interpreted by the shell. The order of preference
is the `$GIT_PAGER` environment variable, then `core.pager`
configuration, then `$PAGER`, and then the default chosen at
- compile time (usually 'less').
+ compile time (usually `less`).
ifdef::git-default-pager[]
The build you are using chose '{git-default-pager}' as the default.
endif::git-default-pager[]
@@ -87,15 +87,15 @@ the URLs passed as arguments.
NOTE ABOUT KONQUEROR
--------------------
-When 'konqueror' is specified by a command-line option or a
-configuration variable, we launch 'kfmclient' to try to open the HTML
+When `konqueror` is specified by a command-line option or a
+configuration variable, we launch `kfmclient` to try to open the HTML
man page on an already opened konqueror in a new tab if possible.
For consistency, we also try such a trick if `browser.konqueror.path` is
set to something like `A_PATH_TO/konqueror`. That means we will try to
launch `A_PATH_TO/kfmclient` instead.
-If you really want to use 'konqueror', then you can use something like
+If you really want to use `konqueror`, then you can use something like
the following:
------------------------------------------------
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ sensitive information can be part of the key.
`-p`::
`--paginate`::
- Pipe all output into 'less' (or if set, `$PAGER`) if standard
+ Pipe all output into `less` (or if set, `$PAGER`) if standard
output is a terminal. This overrides the `pager.<cmd>`
configuration options (see the "Configuration Mechanism" section
below).
@@ -637,7 +637,7 @@ other
`GIT_SSH`::
`GIT_SSH_COMMAND`::
If either of these environment variables is set then `git fetch`
- and `git push` will use the specified command instead of 'ssh'
+ and `git push` will use the specified command instead of `ssh`
when they need to connect to a remote system.
The command-line parameters passed to the configured command are
determined by the ssh variant. See `ssh.variant` option in
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
which is just Git's way of saying that you haven't been doing anything
strange, and that it will have created a local `.git` directory setup for
your new project. You will now have a `.git` directory, and you can
-inspect that with 'ls'. For your new empty project, it should show you
+inspect that with `ls`. For your new empty project, it should show you
three entries, among other things:
- a file called `HEAD`, that has `ref: refs/heads/master` in it.
@@ -635,7 +635,7 @@ in the new repository to make sure that the index file is up to date.
Note that the second point is true even across machines. You can
duplicate a remote Git repository with *any* regular copy mechanism, be it
-'scp', 'rsync' or 'wget'.
+`scp`, `rsync` or `wget`.
When copying a remote repository, you'll want to at a minimum update the
index cache when you do this, and especially with other peoples'
@@ -1028,7 +1028,7 @@ Local directory::
+
This transport is the same as SSH transport but uses 'sh' to run
both ends on the local machine instead of running other end on
-the remote machine via 'ssh'.
+the remote machine via `ssh`.
Git Native::
`git://remote.machine/path/to/repo.git/`
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ the remote repository.
`bidi-import`::
This modifies the 'import' capability.
- The fast-import commands 'cat-blob' and 'ls' can be used by remote-helpers
+ The fast-import commands 'cat-blob' and `ls` can be used by remote-helpers
to retrieve information about blobs and trees that already exist in
fast-import's memory. This requires a channel from fast-import to the
remote-helper.
Wrap common programs with backticks as indicated in the CodingGuidelines. The following command and regex helped to find out a partial list of such program. grep -RPoh "'[a-z]+'" *.txt | sort | uniq | less Signed-off-by: Firmin Martin <firminmartin24@gmail.com> --- Documentation/git-archive.txt | 2 +- Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt | 2 +- Documentation/git-fast-import.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/git-grep.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/git-help.txt | 24 ++++++++++++------------ Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 2 +- Documentation/git-var.txt | 6 +++--- Documentation/git-web--browse.txt | 6 +++--- Documentation/git.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt | 6 +++--- Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt | 2 +- 11 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)