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[PATCH 06/17] Documentation: clarify quoting in "git rm" example

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 20, 2010, 10:30 UTC
Message-ID
<20100820103024.GF10407@burratino>
In-Reply-To
<20100820101902.GA10356@burratino>
Intended output:
	git rm Documentation/\*.txt
		Removes all *.txt files from the index that are under
		the Documentation directory and any of its
		subdirectories.
		Note that the asterisk * is quoted from the shell in
		this example; this lets git, and not the shell, expand
		the pathnames of files and subdirectories under the
		Documentation/ directory.

Without this change, there are too many backslashes output. Tested with asciidoc 8.5.2.

Reported-by: Frédéric Brière <fbriere@fbriere.net>
Cc: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-rm.txt |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rm.txt b/Documentation/git-rm.txt
index d146751..71e3d9f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rm.txt
@@ -136,11 +136,11 @@ git diff --name-only --diff-filter=D -z | xargs -0 git rm --cached
 
 EXAMPLES
 --------
-git rm Documentation/\\*.txt::
-	Removes all `\*.txt` files from the index that are under the
+git rm Documentation/\*.txt::
+	Removes all `*.txt` files from the index that are under the
 	`Documentation` directory and any of its subdirectories.
 +
-Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
+Note that the asterisk `*` is quoted from the shell in this
 example; this lets git, and not the shell, expand the pathnames
 of files and subdirectories under the `Documentation/` directory.
 
-- 
1.7.2.2.536.g42dab.dirty
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  7. 06/17 Documentation: clarify quoting in "git rm" exampleJonathan Nieder, Aug 20, 2010
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  13. 12/17 Documentation: remove stray backslashes in rev-parse manualJonathan Nieder, Aug 20, 2010
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