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[PATCH] Fix small typo in .gitignore documentation

From
Julien Richard via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 3, 2021, 12:40 UTC
Message-ID
<pull.972.git.git.1614775254623.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
From: Julien Richard <julien.richard@ubisoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Julien Richard <julien.richard@ubisoft.com>
---
    Fix small typo in .gitignore documentation
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-972%2Fjairbubbles%2Ffix-small-typo-in-gitignore-documentation-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-972/jairbubbles/fix-small-typo-in-gitignore-documentation-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/972
 Documentation/gitignore.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index d47b1ae29637..5751603b13f4 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ EXAMPLES
 --------
 
  - The pattern `hello.*` matches any file or folder
-   whose name begins with `hello`. If one wants to restrict
+   whose name begins with `hello.`. If one wants to restrict
    this only to the directory and not in its subdirectories,
    one can prepend the pattern with a slash, i.e. `/hello.*`;
    the pattern now matches `hello.txt`, `hello.c` but not

base-commit: ec125d1bc1053df7e4103f71ebd24fe48dd624a2
-- 
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