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documentation style: "branch" may be another kind ref
authorIan Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Fri, 11 Jan 2019 21:42:21 +0000 (21:42 +0000)
committerIan Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Fri, 1 Mar 2019 18:06:21 +0000 (18:06 +0000)
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.1

diff --git a/dgit.1 b/dgit.1
index cd0419ee3092310107fea215b6e2d2ed8a8ea1b6..d23dde01384c166d71717f2955c104335a3f699d 100644 (file)
--- a/dgit.1
+++ b/dgit.1
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ and dgit actually imports the dsc
 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