The thing being referred to here is `branch', not `the branch', since
it may not be a branch.  Put it in italics to make it clear that what
is referred to is the metasyntactic variable.

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
---
 dgit.1 | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/dgit.1 b/dgit.1
index cd0419ee..d23dde01 100644
--- a/dgit.1
+++ b/dgit.1
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ and dgit actually imports the dsc
 dgit will make a pseudomerge
 so that the result is necessarily fast forward
 from the existing branch.
-Otherwise, if the branch already exists,
+Otherwise, if \fIbranch\fR already exists,
 dgit will stop with an error message.
 
 If
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2.11.0

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