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[PATCH 12/17] Documentation: remove stray backslashes in rev-parse manual

From: Jonathan Nieder <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:49:21
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

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 <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <redacted>
---
 Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt |    9 +++++----
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index be4c053..341ca90 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.
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