Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/17] Documentation: remove stray backslash in show-branch discussion

From: Thomas Rast <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:18:30 +0200

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
> index 81ba296..01fc157 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt
> @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ $ git show-branch master fixes mhf
>  ------------------------------------------------
>  
>  These three branches all forked from a common commit, [master],
> -whose commit message is "Add \'git show-branch\'". The "fixes"
> -branch adds one commit "Introduce "reset type" flag to "git reset"".
> -The "mhf" branch adds many other commits. The current branch
> -is "master".
> +whose commit message is "Add {apostrophe}git show-branch{apostrophe}".
> +The "fixes" branch adds one commit "Introduce "reset type" flag to
> +"git reset"". The "mhf" branch adds many other commits.
> +The current branch is "master".

What does this apply on?  I tried 'git am -3' but it says

  Applying: Documentation: remove stray backslash in show-branch discussion
  Using index info to reconstruct a base tree...
  error: patch failed: Documentation/git-show-branch.txt:168
  error: Documentation/git-show-branch.txt: patch does not apply
  Did you hand edit your patch?
  It does not apply to blobs recorded in its index.
  Cannot fall back to three-way merge.
  Patch failed at 0013 Documentation: remove stray backslash in show-branch discussion

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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch