git checkout -b: allow switching out of an unborn branch

diff --git a/Documentation/git-revert.txt b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
index 45be851750c2ce81500765f6dfbd23578c68abda..3d0a7d1dac5614d6644a0ea226d65bd9f667143a 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-revert.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ git-revert - Revert some existing commits
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
+[verse]
 'git revert' [--edit | --no-edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] <commit>...
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ throw away all uncommitted changes in your working directory, you
 should see linkgit:git-reset[1], particularly the '--hard' option.  If
 you want to extract specific files as they were in another commit, you
 should see linkgit:git-checkout[1], specifically the `git checkout
-<commit> -- <filename>` syntax.  Take care with these alternatives as
+<commit> \-- <filename>` syntax.  Take care with these alternatives as
 both will discard uncommitted changes in your working directory.
 
 OPTIONS
@@ -105,14 +106,6 @@ git revert -n master{tilde}5..master{tilde}2::
        changes. The revert only modifies the working tree and the
        index.
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-cherry-pick[1]