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authorJonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>2010-08-20 05:35:03 -0500
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-08-20 14:16:22 -0700
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Documentation: remove stray backslashes in rev-parse manual
Use the {asterisk} entity instead of \* or * to avoid both stray backslashes in output and suppression of asterisks misinterpreted as a bold-text delimiter. Reported-by: Frédéric Brière <fbriere@fbriere.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index be4c053360..341ca90c6e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ OPTIONS
properly quoted for consumption by shell. Useful when
you expect your parameter to contain whitespaces and
newlines (e.g. when using pickaxe `-S` with
- 'git diff-\*'). In contrast to the `--sq-quote` option,
+ 'git diff-{asterisk}'). In contrast to the `--sq-quote` option,
the command input is still interpreted as usual.
--not::
@@ -112,14 +112,15 @@ OPTIONS
+
If a `pattern` is given, only refs matching the given shell glob are
shown. If the pattern does not contain a globbing character (`?`,
-`\*`, or `[`), it is turned into a prefix match by appending `/\*`.
+`{asterisk}`, or `[`), it is turned into a prefix match by
+appending `/{asterisk}`.
--glob=pattern::
Show all refs matching the shell glob pattern `pattern`. If
the pattern does not start with `refs/`, this is automatically
prepended. If the pattern does not contain a globbing
- character (`?`, `\*`, or `[`), it is turned into a prefix
- match by appending `/\*`.
+ character (`?`, `{asterisk}`, or `[`), it is turned into a prefix
+ match by appending `/{asterisk}`.
--show-toplevel::
Show the absolute path of the top-level directory.