The first example for git-add covers recursive adding of patterns but contains an extra backslash. If copied verbatim, the command fails with fatal: pathspec 'Documentation/\*.txt' did not match any files This patch corrects the problem and adds an equivalent invocation. Signed-off-by: Greg Bacon <gbacon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-add.txt | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt index f74fcf3..93e8f57 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-add.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt @@ -149,11 +149,12 @@ those in info/exclude. See linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5]. EXAMPLES -------- -* Adds content from all `\*.txt` files under `Documentation` directory +* Adds content from all `*.txt` files under `Documentation` directory and its subdirectories: + ------------ -$ git add Documentation/\\*.txt +$ git add Documentation/\*.txt +$ git add 'Documentation/*.txt' # same thing ------------ + Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this -- 1.6.5.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html