Add a notice that only certain functions can print color escape codes

diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
index 7bdf0901dd39ac8bdca777c00005916f6df7074d..e237394397199cbb9b72f1f7989d0b51667e9a6d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
@@ -993,7 +993,7 @@ would be different)
 
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 Updating from ae3a2da... to a80b4aa....
-Fast forward (no commit created; -m option ignored)
+Fast-forward (no commit created; -m option ignored)
  example |    1 +
  hello   |    1 +
  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
@@ -1003,7 +1003,7 @@ Because your branch did not contain anything more than what had
 already been merged into the `master` branch, the merge operation did
 not actually do a merge. Instead, it just updated the top of
 the tree of your branch to that of the `master` branch. This is
-often called 'fast forward' merge.
+often called 'fast-forward' merge.
 
 You can run `gitk \--all` again to see how the commit ancestry
 looks like, or run 'show-branch', which tells you this.
@@ -1186,9 +1186,9 @@ $ git show-branch
 * [master] Some fun.
  ! [mybranch] Some work.
 --
- + [mybranch] Some work.
 *  [master] Some fun.
-*+ [mybranch^] Initial commit
+ + [mybranch] Some work.
+*+ [master^] Initial commit
 ------------
 
 Now we are ready to experiment with the merge by hand.