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Correct ^0 asciidoc syntax in fast-import docs.

PATCH In review Shawn O. Pearce 1 participant 1 message Jun 15, 2016 Documentation

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PATCH 1/2 Correct ^0 asciidoc syntax in fast-import docs.

I wrote this documentation with asciidoc 7.1.2, but apparently asciidoc 8 assumes ^ means superscript. The solution was already documented in rev-parse's manpage and is to use {caret} instead.

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 Documentation/git-fast-import.txt |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +2 -2
index 0b64d33..0c44761 100644
@@ -380,9 +380,9 @@ current branch value should be written as:
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 	from refs/heads/branch^0
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-The `^0` suffix is necessary as gfi does not permit a branch to
+The `{caret}0` suffix is necessary as gfi does not permit a branch to
 start from itself, and the branch is created in memory before the
-`from` command is even read from the input.  Adding `^0` will force
+`from` command is even read from the input.  Adding `{caret}0` will force
 gfi to resolve the commit through Git's revision parsing library,
 rather than its internal branch table, thereby loading in the
 existing value of the branch.
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