The thing being referred to here is `branch', not `the branch', since
it may not be a branch. Put it in italics to make it clear that what
is referred to is the metasyntactic variable.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
dgit will make a pseudomerge
so that the result is necessarily fast forward
from the existing branch.
-Otherwise, if the branch already exists,
+Otherwise, if \fIbranch\fR already exists,
dgit will stop with an error message.
If