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[PATCH] git-show-ref: fix escaping in asciidoc source

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mhagger@alum.mit.edu <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date
Oct 19, 2011, 18:52 UTC
Message-ID
<1319050336-24717-1-git-send-email-mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
One of the "^" characters was not coming through in the man page.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
---
 Documentation/git-show-ref.txt |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
index 3c45895..87f358d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ OPTIONS
 -d::
 --dereference::
 
-	Dereference tags into object IDs as well. They will be shown with "^{}"
+	Dereference tags into object IDs as well. They will be shown with "{caret}\{\}"
 	appended.
 
 -s::
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	Make 'git show-ref' act as a filter that reads refs from stdin of the
 	form "^(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:{backslash}{caret}\{\})?$"
 	and performs the following actions on each:
-	(1) strip "^{}" at the end of line if any;
+	(1) strip "{caret}\{\}" at the end of line if any;
 	(2) ignore if pattern is provided and does not head-match refname;
 	(3) warn if refname is not a well-formed refname and skip;
 	(4) ignore if refname is a ref that exists in the local repository;
-- 
1.7.7
Next: Junio C Hamano
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  1. git-show-ref: fix escaping in asciidoc sourcemhagger@alum.mit.edu, Oct 19, 2011
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 19, 2011
  3. Michael HaggertyNov 15, 2011
  4. Junio C HamanoNov 15, 2011
  5. Michael HaggertyNov 16, 2011
  6. Michael HaggertyNov 16, 2011
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