Documentation: clarify quoting in "git rm" example

[git.git] / Documentation / git-rm.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rm.txt b/Documentation/git-rm.txt
index d146751caacc163d3f905fba726c2475baa4098e..71e3d9fc23ab6f1c181c47ebb7c9483950a9e9a6 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rm.txt
@@ -136,11 +136,11 @@ git diff --name-only --diff-filter=D -z | xargs -0 git rm --cached
 
 EXAMPLES
 --------
-git rm Documentation/\\*.txt::
-       Removes all `\*.txt` files from the index that are under the
+git rm Documentation/\*.txt::
+       Removes all `*.txt` files from the index that are under the
        `Documentation` directory and any of its subdirectories.
 +
-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 git, and not the shell, expand the pathnames
 of files and subdirectories under the `Documentation/` directory.