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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-show-ref.txt2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
index 8dfcbe3fd4..fcee0008a9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ OPTIONS
--exclude-existing[=<pattern>]::
Make 'git show-ref' act as a filter that reads refs from stdin of the
- form "{caret}(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:{backslash}{caret}{})?$"
+ form "`{caret}(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:{backslash}{caret}{})?$`"
and performs the following actions on each:
(1) strip "{caret}{}" at the end of line if any;
(2) ignore if pattern is provided and does not head-match refname;