Merge branch 'jc/pickaxe-grep'

[git.git] / Documentation / git-show-ref.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
index 75780d7d63894e220bf938da0b4f5dca40d6301d..4696af743321d78d9e1d17115d29222f17cb4d55 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ OPTIONS
 --exclude-existing[=<pattern>]::
 
        Make 'git show-ref' act as a filter that reads refs from stdin of the
-       form "^(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:\^\{\})?$" and performs the
-       following actions on each:
+       form "^(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:{backslash}{caret}\{\})?$"
+       and performs the following actions on each:
        (1) strip "^{}" at the end of line if any;
        (2) ignore if pattern is provided and does not head-match refname;
        (3) warn if refname is not a well-formed refname and skip;