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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 8, 2010, 19:22 UTC
Message-ID: <7vsk9bmt1h.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1265650551-32664-1-git-send-email-gbacon@dbresearch.net>

Greg Bacon <gbacon@dbresearch.net> writes:

> The first example for git-add covers recursive adding of patterns but
> contains an extra backslash.

Correct.

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> 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

For this, both

    http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-add.html

and output from

    git help add

in my local build seem to be rendered correctly by AsciiDoc.

>  and its subdirectories:
>  +
>  ------------
> -$ git add Documentation/\\*.txt

This indeed results in double-backslash in the output.

> +$ git add Documentation/\*.txt

and this seems to fix it.

Thanks.