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 -- 2.11.0