git-show-ref: fix escaping in asciidoc source

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
index 3c4589529960e013df364c68e4480caa09b744c6..8dfcbe3fd453bfcb5976af32f33912a9e4e28b8f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ OPTIONS
 -d::
 --dereference::
 
-       Dereference tags into object IDs as well. They will be shown with "^{}"
+       Dereference tags into object IDs as well. They will be shown with "{caret}{}"
        appended.
 
 -s::
@@ -73,9 +73,9 @@ OPTIONS
 --exclude-existing[=<pattern>]::
 
        Make 'git show-ref' act as a filter that reads refs from stdin of the
-       form "^(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:{backslash}{caret}\{\})?$"
+       form "{caret}(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:{backslash}{caret}{})?$"
        and performs the following actions on each:
-       (1) strip "^{}" at the end of line if any;
+       (1) strip "{caret}{}" 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;
        (4) ignore if refname is a ref that exists in the local repository;