Documentation formatting and cleanup

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / git-fast-import.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
index 8881686fa77357a6bff9b38ea42e818e8a2a8b99..70cc8e831f3bee9ba785da318f971bc07d2037ea 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ DESCRIPTION
 This program is usually not what the end user wants to run directly.
 Most end users want to use one of the existing frontend programs,
 which parses a specific type of foreign source and feeds the contents
-stored there to git-fast-import.
+stored there to `git-fast-import`.
 
 fast-import reads a mixed command/data stream from standard input and
 writes one or more packfiles directly into the current repository.
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ updated branch and tag refs, fully updating the current repository
 with the newly imported data.
 
 The fast-import backend itself can import into an empty repository (one that
-has already been initialized by linkgit:git-init[1]) or incrementally
+has already been initialized by `git-init`) or incrementally
 update an existing populated repository.  Whether or not incremental
 imports are supported from a particular foreign source depends on
 the frontend program in use.
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ OPTIONS
        This information may be useful after importing projects
        whose total object set exceeds the 4 GiB packfile limit,
        as these commits can be used as edge points during calls
-       to linkgit:git-pack-objects[1].
+       to `git-pack-objects`.
 
 --quiet::
        Disable all non-fatal output, making fast-import silent when it
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ variation in formatting will cause fast-import to reject the value.
 +
 An example value is ``Tue Feb 6 11:22:18 2007 -0500''.  The Git
 parser is accurate, but a little on the lenient side.  It is the
-same parser used by linkgit:git-am[1] when applying patches
+same parser used by `git-am` when applying patches
 received from email.
 +
 Some malformed strings may be accepted as valid dates.  In some of
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ timezone.
 This particular format is supplied as its short to implement and
 may be useful to a process that wants to create a new commit
 right now, without needing to use a working directory or
-linkgit:git-update-index[1].
+`git-update-index`.
 +
 If separate `author` and `committer` commands are used in a `commit`
 the timestamps may not match, as the system clock will be polled
@@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ recommended, as the frontend does not (easily) have access to the
 complete set of bytes which normally goes into such a signature.
 If signing is required, create lightweight tags from within fast-import with
 `reset`, then create the annotated versions of those tags offline
-with the standard linkgit:git-tag[1] process.
+with the standard `git-tag` process.
 
 `reset`
 ~~~~~~~
@@ -955,7 +955,7 @@ is not `refs/heads/TAG_FIXUP`).
 
 When committing fixups, consider using `merge` to connect the
 commit(s) which are supplying file revisions to the fixup branch.
-Doing so will allow tools such as linkgit:git-blame[1] to track
+Doing so will allow tools such as `git-blame` to track
 through the real commit history and properly annotate the source
 files.
 
@@ -984,7 +984,7 @@ Repacking Historical Data
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 If you are repacking very old imported data (e.g. older than the
 last year), consider expending some extra CPU time and supplying
-\--window=50 (or higher) when you run linkgit:git-repack[1].
+\--window=50 (or higher) when you run `git-repack`.
 This will take longer, but will also produce a smaller packfile.
 You only need to expend the effort once, and everyone using your
 project will benefit from the smaller repository.