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[PATCH] core-tutorial.txt: escape asterisk

From
MLMatthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Date
May 7, 2006, 17:32 UTC
Message-ID
<E1Fcn7l-0003ru-ER@moooo.ath.cx>

--- I don't now exactly why, but this asterisk has to be escaped to show up correctly in the html format.

 Documentation/core-tutorial.txt |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
7e3a9fbafb8b6aa4ce460221a982feda06549215
diff --git a/Documentation/core-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/core-tutorial.txt
index 4211c81..d1360ec 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-tutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/core-tutorial.txt
@@ -971,7 +971,7 @@ environment, is `git show-branch`.
 The first two lines indicate that it is showing the two branches
 and the first line of the commit log message from their
 top-of-the-tree commits, you are currently on `master` branch
-(notice the asterisk `*` character), and the first column for
+(notice the asterisk `\*` character), and the first column for
 the later output lines is used to show commits contained in the
 `master` branch, and the second column for the `mybranch`
 branch. Three commits are shown along with their log messages.
-- 
1.3.2
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  1. core-tutorial.txt: escape asteriskMatthias Lederhofer, May 7, 2006

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