add a howto document about corrupted blob recovery

[git.git] / Documentation / git-filter-branch.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
index c878ed395eb27de02efda2e3018ae76fbb799c7b..895d7503100632f5ab79af548fed3b3a6d79c413 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ definition impossible to preserve signatures at any rate.)
        does this in the '.git-rewrite/' directory but you can override
        that choice by this parameter.
 
--f\|--force::
+-f|--force::
        `git filter-branch` refuses to start with an existing temporary
        directory or when there are already refs starting with
        'refs/original/', unless forced.
@@ -180,8 +180,7 @@ A significantly faster version:
 git filter-branch --index-filter 'git update-index --remove filename' HEAD
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-Now, you will get the rewritten history saved in the branch 'newbranch'
-(your current branch is left untouched).
+Now, you will get the rewritten history saved in HEAD.
 
 To set a commit (which typically is at the tip of another
 history) to be the parent of the current initial commit, in
@@ -220,7 +219,7 @@ git filter-branch --commit-filter '
        fi' HEAD
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-The function 'skip_commits' is defined as follows:
+The function 'skip_commit' is defined as follows:
 
 --------------------------
 skip_commit()