pretty-formats: define "literal formatting code"

The description for a %(trailer) option already uses this term without
having a definition anywhere in the document, and we are about to add
another one in %(decorate) that uses it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
index 3b713344597090037bd6cd7bc034aaeed8316656..5e1432951b19672acee055f04d90266ad13dd2f4 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
@@ -122,7 +122,9 @@ The placeholders are:
 - Placeholders that expand to a single literal character:
 '%n':: newline
 '%%':: a raw '%'
-'%x00':: print a byte from a hex code
+'%x00':: '%x' followed by two hexadecimal digits is replaced with a
+        byte with the hexadecimal digits' value (we will call this
+        "literal formatting code" in the rest of this document).
 
 - Placeholders that affect formatting of later placeholders:
 '%Cred':: switch color to red