[PATCH] Documentation: git-add: correct first example
From: Greg Bacon <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:48:12
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
The first example for git-add covers recursive adding of patterns but contains an extra backslash. If copied verbatim, the command fails with fatal: pathspec 'Documentation/\*.txt' did not match any files This patch corrects the problem and adds an equivalent invocation. Signed-off-by: Greg Bacon <redacted> --- Documentation/git-add.txt | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index f74fcf3..93e8f57 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt@@ -149,11 +149,12 @@ those in info/exclude. See linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5]. EXAMPLES -------- -* Adds content from all `\*.txt` files under `Documentation` directory +* Adds content from all `*.txt` files under `Documentation` directory and its subdirectories: + ------------ -$ git add Documentation/\\*.txt +$ git add Documentation/\*.txt +$ git add 'Documentation/*.txt' # same thing ------------ + Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
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