When we write `<name>`s with the "s" tucked on to the closing backtick,
we end up rendering the backticks literally. Rephrase this sentence
slightly to render this as monospace.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
empty string, instead the environment variable itself must be
set to the empty string. It is an error if the `<envvar>` does not exist
in the environment. `<envvar>` may not contain an equals sign
- to avoid ambiguity with `<name>`s which contain one.
+ to avoid ambiguity with `<name>` containing one.
+
This is useful for cases where you want to pass transitory
configuration options to git, but are doing so on OS's where