Documentation: fix missing text for rev-parse --verify
authorbrian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:00:35 +0000 (23:00 +0000)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tue, 22 Jul 2014 17:10:57 +0000 (10:10 -0700)
The caret (^) is used as a markup symbol in AsciiDoc. Due to the
inability of AsciiDoc to parse a line containing an unmatched caret, it
omitted the line from the output, resulting in the man page missing the
end of a sentence. Escape this caret so that the man page ends up with
the complete text.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index d068a653778d6713d6ab370379dadf0d6f754856..3cf0ce8b91fb6aa0be308983ac42703936bfe6d5 100644 (file)
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ eval "set -- $(git rev-parse --sq --prefix "$prefix" "$@")"
 +
 If you want to make sure that the output actually names an object in
 your object database and/or can be used as a specific type of object
-you require, you can add "^{type}" peeling operator to the parameter.
+you require, you can add "\^{type}" peeling operator to the parameter.
 For example, `git rev-parse "$VAR^{commit}"` will make sure `$VAR`
 names an existing object that is a commit-ish (i.e. a commit, or an
 annotated tag that points at a commit).  To make sure that `$VAR`