# [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: grep: fix asciidoc problem with --

1 messages from 2010-06-25 to 2010-06-25. Participants: Christian Couder.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/24193

## Christian Couder, 2010-06-25 02:16

Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: grep: fix asciidoc problem with --
Message-ID: <20100625021625.12918.85714.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20100625021625.12918.85714.chriscool%40tuxfamily.org

```
Asciidoc interprets two dashes separated by spaces as a single big
dash. So let's escape the first dash, so that "\--" will properly
appear as "--".

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
---
 Documentation/git-grep.txt |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
index d89ec32..5474dd7 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ OPTIONS
 Examples
 --------
 
-git grep 'time_t' -- '*.[ch]'::
+git grep 'time_t' \-- '*.[ch]'::
 	Looks for `time_t` in all tracked .c and .h files in the working
 	directory and its subdirectories.
 
-- 
1.7.1.642.gc3eb1

```