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[PATCH v2] doc: check-ignore: code-quote an exclamation mark

From
Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Date
Feb 3, 2022, 10:16 UTC
Message-ID
<20220203101643.1987-1-philipoakley@iee.email>

The plain quoted exclamation mark renders as italics in the Windows pdf help manual.

Fix this with back-tick quoting and surrounding double quotes as exemplified by the gitignore.txt guide.

While at it, fix the surrounding double quotes for the other special characters usages.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
---

Since V1: Corrected finger trouble with special character when copy-pasting.

 Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt
index 0c3924a63d..2892799e32 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	Instead of printing the paths that are excluded, for each path
 	that matches an exclude pattern, print the exclude pattern
 	together with the path.  (Matching an exclude pattern usually
-	means the path is excluded, but if the pattern begins with '!'
+	means the path is excluded, but if the pattern begins with "`!`"
 	then it is a negated pattern and matching it means the path is
 	NOT excluded.)
 +
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ If `--verbose` is specified, the output is a series of lines of the form:
 <pathname> is the path of a file being queried, <pattern> is the
 matching pattern, <source> is the pattern's source file, and <linenum>
 is the line number of the pattern within that source.  If the pattern
-contained a `!` prefix or `/` suffix, it will be preserved in the
+contained a "`!`" prefix or "`/`" suffix, it will be preserved in the
 output.  <source> will be an absolute path when referring to the file
 configured by `core.excludesFile`, or relative to the repository root
 when referring to `.git/info/exclude` or a per-directory exclude file.
-- 
2.35.1.windows.2
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