From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:35:03 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Documentation: remove stray backslashes in rev-parse manual X-Git-Tag: v1.7.3-rc0~15^2~5 X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4cacbf677d4747e02586ca6f12d16cf8b5dc34e8;p=git.git Documentation: remove stray backslashes in rev-parse manual 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 Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index be4c05336..341ca90c6 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.