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[PATCH 16/17] Documentation: do not convert ... operator to ellipses

From: Jonathan Nieder <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:49:21
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

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 <redacted>
---
 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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