The intended text looks like this: · Adds content from all *.txt files under Documentation directory and its subdirectories: $ git add Documentation/\*.txt Note that the asterisk * is quoted from the shell in this example; this lets the command include the files from subdirectories of Documentation/ directory. The current asciidoc 8.5.2 output has a backslash before _every_ asterisk, which is more confusing than it needs to be. Reported-by: Frédéric Brière <fbriere@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-add.txt | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt index e22a62f..e213a2e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-add.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt @@ -157,14 +157,14 @@ 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 ------------ + -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 the command include the files from subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory. -- 1.7.2.2.536.g42dab.dirty -- 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