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patchgitignore.txt: mark up explanation of patterns consistently

Subject: [PATCH] gitignore.txt: mark up explanation of patterns consistently

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One message between Jul 18, 2023 and Jul 18, 2023. Diffs are folded; open one to read it.

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Junio C Hamano· Jul 18, 2023, 17:47 UTC · lore

In the "PATTERN FORMAT" section, all the other pattern elements are shown as `monospace` literals inside "double quoted" strings. Do the same for the explanation of a slash to make it consistent.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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 Documentation/gitignore.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index 4c17f2356c..bf2d823c94 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ PATTERN FORMAT
    Put a backslash ("`\`") in front of the first "`!`" for patterns
    that begin with a literal "`!`", for example, "`\!important!.txt`".
 
- - The slash '/' is used as the directory separator. Separators may
+ - The slash "`/`" is used as the directory separator. Separators may
    occur at the beginning, middle or end of the `.gitignore` search pattern.
 
  - If there is a separator at the beginning or middle (or both) of the
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