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[PATCH 15/17] Documentation: avoid stray backslash in user manual

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

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <redacted>
---
 Documentation/user-manual.txt |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 22aee34..fecc4eb 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -4251,9 +4251,9 @@ Two things are interesting here:
   negative numbers in case of different errors--and 0 on success.
 
 - the variable `sha1` in the function signature of `get_sha1()` is `unsigned
-  char \*`, but is actually expected to be a pointer to `unsigned
+  char {asterisk}`, but is actually expected to be a pointer to `unsigned
   char[20]`.  This variable will contain the 160-bit SHA-1 of the given
-  commit.  Note that whenever a SHA-1 is passed as `unsigned char \*`, it
+  commit.  Note that whenever a SHA-1 is passed as `unsigned char {asterisk}`, it
   is the binary representation, as opposed to the ASCII representation in
   hex characters, which is passed as `char *`.
 
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1.7.2.2.536.g42dab.dirty
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