Documentation formatting and cleanup

Following what appears to be the predominant style, format
names of commands and commandlines both as `teletype text`.

While we're at it, add articles ("a" and "the") in some
places, italicize the name of the command in the manual page
synopsis line, and add a comma or two where it seems appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jonathan Nieder
2008-06-30 13:56:34 -05:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent b1889c36d8
commit 483bc4f045
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@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ other display programs (see below).
+
The web browser can be specified using the configuration variable
'help.browser', or 'web.browser' if the former is not set. If none of
these config variables is set, the 'git-web--browse' helper script
(called by 'git-help') will pick a suitable default. See
these config variables is set, the `git-web--browse` helper script
(called by `git-help`) will pick a suitable default. See
linkgit:git-web--browse[1] for more information about this.
CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ help.format
If no command line option is passed, the 'help.format' configuration
variable will be checked. The following values are supported for this
variable; they make 'git-help' behave as their corresponding command
variable; they make `git-help` behave as their corresponding command
line option:
* "man" corresponds to '-m|--man',