The intended text looks like this:
· Adds content from all *.txt files under Documentation
directory and its subdirectories:
$ git add Documentation/\*.txt
Note that the asterisk * is quoted from the shell in this
example; this lets the command include the files from
subdirectories of Documentation/ directory.
The current asciidoc 8.5.2 output has a backslash before _every_
asterisk, which is more confusing than it needs to be.
Reported-by: Frédéric Brière <redacted>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <redacted>
---
Documentation/git-add.txt | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index e22a62f..e213a2e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
@@ -157,14 +157,14 @@ 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
------------
+
-Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
+Note that the asterisk `*` is quoted from the shell in this
example; this lets the command include the files from
subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory.
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