Intended output: git rm Documentation/\*.txt Removes all *.txt files from the index that are under the Documentation directory and any of its subdirectories. Note that the asterisk * is quoted from the shell in this example; this lets git, and not the shell, expand the pathnames of files and subdirectories under the Documentation/ directory. Without this change, there are too many backslashes output. Tested with asciidoc 8.5.2. Reported-by: Frédéric Brière <fbriere@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Carl Worth <cworth@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-rm.txt | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-rm.txt b/Documentation/git-rm.txt index d146751..71e3d9f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rm.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rm.txt @@ -136,11 +136,11 @@ git diff --name-only --diff-filter=D -z | xargs -0 git rm --cached EXAMPLES -------- -git rm Documentation/\\*.txt:: - Removes all `\*.txt` files from the index that are under the +git rm Documentation/\*.txt:: + Removes all `*.txt` files from the index that are under the `Documentation` directory and any of its subdirectories. + -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 git, and not the shell, expand the pathnames of files and subdirectories under the `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