Sverre Rabbelier [off-list ref] writes:
From the original faq:
<<GitLink(git-name, Because Linus is an egotistical git)>>
Is translated to
<<[[GitLink]](git-name, Because Linus is an egotistical git}}
But should instead be turned into a comment (from the source of the faq):
<!-- GitLink[git-name] Because Linus is an egotistical git -->
quoted
There's some
extraneous bits on the page that I haven't figured out what they were
for originally but most everything on the page seems to work fine for me...
We're probably referring to the same then :).
IIRC, they are read by gitbot listening to #git channel at freenode, so
that people can say "faq git-name" and such to summon a response.