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[PATCH] doc: fix formatting of function-wrap shell alias

From
KMKyle E. Mitchell <kyle@kemitchell.com>
Date
Sep 1, 2025, 18:04 UTC
Message-ID
<20250901180419.2212086-1-kyle@kemitchell.com>

Add a missed backtick to the end of a code segment so that it will be rendered like preceding examples.

I deeply appreciate the thoroughness of this documentation. I noticed the formatting discrepancy reading https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config.

Signed-off-by: Kyle E. Mitchell <kyle@kemitchell.com>
---
 Documentation/config/alias.adoc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config/alias.adoc b/Documentation/config/alias.adoc
index 2c5db0ad84..95825354bf 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/alias.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/config/alias.adoc
@@ -38,6 +38,6 @@ it will be treated as a shell command.  For example, defining
 ** A convenient way to deal with this is to write your script
    operations in an inline function that is then called with any
    arguments from the command-line.  For example `alias.cmd = "!c() {
-   echo $1 | grep $2 ; }; c" will correctly execute the prior example.
+   echo $1 | grep $2 ; }; c"` will correctly execute the prior example.
 ** Setting `GIT_TRACE=1` can help you debug the command being run for
    your alias.
-- 
2.51.0
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  1. doc: fix formatting of function-wrap shell aliasKyle E. Mitchell, Sep 1, 2025
  2. Jean-Noël AVILASep 1, 2025
  3. Junio C HamanoSep 2, 2025

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