Subject: [PATCH v2 2/4] doc: replay: improve config description

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 18:04:23 +0200

From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <[email-masked]>

First of all, this bullet list for `--ref-action` introduces a term with
a colon.  This is exactly what a description list is, structurally. Let’s
be sylistically consistent and use the description list markup
construct. Let’s also drop the harmless but unneeded indentation.

Second, let’s replace the inline-verbatim `git replay` with a link
to git-replay(1), since we are naming the command. But make that
conditional so that we avoid a self-link inside git-replay(1).[1]

† 1: See e.g. e7b3a768 (doc: git-init: rework config item
     init.templateDir, 2024-03-10) for another example of
     avoiding self-linking

Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <[email-masked]>
---

Notes (series):
    v2:
    • Keep the description list for `replay.refAction` (Junio)
    • Now rewrite the description list like in patch 1/3 (it’s
      technically an unordered list)
    • Msg: mention a previous commit which also avoided self-linking.
      This helps establish a bit more context for why we do this.

 Documentation/config/replay.adoc | 16 ++++++++++------
 Documentation/git-replay.adoc    |  1 +
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/config/replay.adoc b/Documentation/config/replay.adoc
index 7d549d2f0e5..7328da9537d 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/replay.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/config/replay.adoc
@@ -1,11 +1,15 @@
 replay.refAction::
-	Specifies the default mode for handling reference updates in
-	`git replay`. The value can be:
+	Specifies the default mode for handling reference updates.
+	The value can be:
 +
 --
-	* `update`: Update refs directly using an atomic transaction (default behavior).
-	* `print`: Output update-ref commands for pipeline use.
+`update`;; Update refs directly using an atomic transaction (default behavior).
+`print`;; Output update-ref commands for pipeline use.
 --
 +
-This setting can be overridden with the `--ref-action` command-line option.
-When not configured, `git replay` defaults to `update` mode.
+ifdef::git-replay[]
+See `--ref-action`.
+endif::git-replay[]
+ifndef::git-replay[]
+See `--ref-action` for linkgit:git-replay[1] for details.
+endif::git-replay[]
diff --git a/Documentation/git-replay.adoc b/Documentation/git-replay.adoc
index f9ca2db2833..4de85088d6c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-replay.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/git-replay.adoc
@@ -211,6 +211,7 @@ to use bare commit IDs instead of branch names.
 
 CONFIGURATION
 -------------
+:git-replay: 1
 include::config/replay.adoc[]
 
 GIT
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