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-rw-r--r--Documentation/asciidoc.conf1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-show-ref.txt4
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
index 6be8ba3250..b5f0f29d1f 100644
--- a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
+++ b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ plus=+
caret=^
startsb=[
endsb=]
+backslash=\
tilde=~
apostrophe='
backtick=`
diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
index 75780d7d63..4696af7433 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ OPTIONS
--exclude-existing[=<pattern>]::
Make 'git show-ref' act as a filter that reads refs from stdin of the
- form "^(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:\^\{\})?$" and performs the
- following actions on each:
+ form "^(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:{backslash}{caret}\{\})?$"
+ and performs the following actions on each:
(1) strip "^{}" at the end of line if any;
(2) ignore if pattern is provided and does not head-match refname;
(3) warn if refname is not a well-formed refname and skip;