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[PATCH] Documentation: git-add: correct first example

From
Greg Bacon <gbacon@dbresearch.net>
Date
Feb 8, 2010, 17:35 UTC
Message-ID
<1265650551-32664-1-git-send-email-gbacon@dbresearch.net>

The first example for git-add covers recursive adding of patterns but contains an extra backslash. If copied verbatim, the command fails with

fatal: pathspec 'Documentation/\*.txt' did not match any files
This patch corrects the problem and adds an equivalent invocation.
Signed-off-by: Greg Bacon <gbacon@dbresearch.net>
---
 Documentation/git-add.txt |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index f74fcf3..93e8f57 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
@@ -149,11 +149,12 @@ those in info/exclude.  See linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5].
 EXAMPLES
 --------
 
-* Adds content from all `\*.txt` files under `Documentation` directory
+* Adds content from all `*.txt` files under `Documentation` directory
 and its subdirectories:
 +
 ------------
-$ git add Documentation/\\*.txt
+$ git add Documentation/\*.txt
+$ git add 'Documentation/*.txt'  # same thing
 ------------
 +
 Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
-- 
1.6.5.5
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