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authorMartin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>2018-04-17 21:15:26 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2018-04-18 12:49:26 +0900
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doc: convert \--option to --option
Rather than using a backslash in \--foo, with or without ''-quoting, write `--foo` for better rendering. As explained in commit 1c262bb7b (doc: convert \--option to --option, 2015-05-13), the backslash is not needed for the versions of AsciiDoc that we support, but is rendered literally by Asciidoctor. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
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@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ There are two ways to specify which commits to operate on.
The first rule takes precedence in the case of a single <commit>. To
apply the second rule, i.e., format everything since the beginning of
-history up until <commit>, use the '\--root' option: `git format-patch
+history up until <commit>, use the `--root` option: `git format-patch
--root <commit>`. If you want to format only <commit> itself, you
can do this with `git format-patch -1 <commit>`.