Re: [PATCH] Fix small typo in .gitignore documentation

diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index d47b1ae29637..5751603b13f4 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt

@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ EXAMPLES
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  - The pattern `hello.*` matches any file or folder
-   whose name begins with `hello`. If one wants to restrict
+   whose name begins with `hello.`. If one wants to restrict
    this only to the directory and not in its subdirectories,
    one can prepend the pattern with a slash, i.e. `/hello.*`;
    the pattern now matches `hello.txt`, `hello.c` but not