Documentation formatting and cleanup

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / git-merge-index.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt
index fb55e92e3b63d5dbaa63e2ea92be2441436da794..43680840e15d677ad54ad5de8561dfff4e63662d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt
@@ -36,20 +36,20 @@ OPTIONS
        failure usually indicates conflicts during merge). This is for
        porcelains which might want to emit custom messages.
 
-If "git-merge-index" is called with multiple <file>s (or -a) then it
+If `git-merge-index` is called with multiple <file>s (or -a) then it
 processes them in turn only stopping if merge returns a non-zero exit
 code.
 
 Typically this is run with a script calling git's imitation of
 the merge command from the RCS package.
 
-A sample script called "git-merge-one-file" is included in the
+A sample script called `git-merge-one-file` is included in the
 distribution.
 
 ALERT ALERT ALERT! The git "merge object order" is different from the
-RCS "merge" program merge object order. In the above ordering, the
+RCS `merge` program merge object order. In the above ordering, the
 original is first. But the argument order to the 3-way merge program
-"merge" is to have the original in the middle. Don't ask me why.
+`merge` is to have the original in the middle. Don't ask me why.
 
 Examples:
 
@@ -68,10 +68,10 @@ or
   This is added AA in the branch B.
   fatal: merge program failed
 
-where the latter example shows how "git-merge-index" will stop trying to
-merge once anything has returned an error (i.e., "cat" returned an error
+where the latter example shows how `git-merge-index` will stop trying to
+merge once anything has returned an error (i.e., `cat` returned an error
 for the AA file, because it didn't exist in the original, and thus
-"git-merge-index" didn't even try to merge the MM thing).
+`git-merge-index` didn't even try to merge the MM thing).
 
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