Add help.autocorrect to enable/disable autocorrecting

[git.git] / Documentation / git-describe.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index 51a0cc044f04cd210d4ced7fb34946bf23896f81..c4dbc2ae342833561080f7a18a93bcf5ac5a0dd3 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ abbreviated object name of the most recent commit.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
-<committish>::
-       The object name of the committish.
+<committish>...::
+       Committish object names to describe.
 
 --all::
        Instead of using only the annotated tags, use any ref
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ of commits which would be displayed by "git log v1.0.4..parent".
 The hash suffix is "-g" + 7-char abbreviation for the tip commit
 of parent (which was `2414721b194453f058079d897d13c4e377f92dc6`).
 
-Doing a `git-describe` on a tag-name will just show the tag name:
+Doing a 'git-describe' on a tag-name will just show the tag name:
 
        [torvalds@g5 git]$ git describe v1.0.4
        v1.0.4
@@ -115,13 +115,13 @@ closest tagname without any suffix:
 SEARCH STRATEGY
 ---------------
 
-For each committish supplied, `git-describe` will first look for
+For each committish supplied, 'git-describe' will first look for
 a tag which tags exactly that commit.  Annotated tags will always
 be preferred over lightweight tags, and tags with newer dates will
 always be preferred over tags with older dates.  If an exact match
 is found, its name will be output and searching will stop.
 
-If an exact match was not found, `git-describe` will walk back
+If an exact match was not found, 'git-describe' will walk back
 through the commit history to locate an ancestor commit which
 has been tagged.  The ancestor's tag will be output along with an
 abbreviation of the input committish's SHA1.
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ will be the smallest number of commits possible.
 Author
 ------
 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, but somewhat
-butchered by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>.  Later significantly
+butchered by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>.  Later significantly
 updated by Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>.
 
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