An asterisk in "Documentation/*.txt" quoted with \ to avoid bold text
is being output as \* because asciidoc does not consider it a
candidate for escaping (there is no matching * to pair it with).
So the manual looks like it is saying that one should write
"Documentation/\*.txt" in the .gitignore file.
Reported-by: Frédéric Brière <fbriere@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/gitignore.txt | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index e10fa88..7dc2e8b 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -90,12 +90,12 @@ Patterns have the following format:
- Otherwise, git treats the pattern as a shell glob suitable
for consumption by fnmatch(3) with the FNM_PATHNAME flag:
wildcards in the pattern will not match a / in the pathname.
- For example, "Documentation/\*.html" matches
+ For example, "Documentation/{asterisk}.html" matches
"Documentation/git.html" but not "Documentation/ppc/ppc.html"
or "tools/perf/Documentation/perf.html".
- A leading slash matches the beginning of the pathname.
- For example, "/*.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not
+ For example, "/{asterisk}.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not
"mozilla-sha1/sha1.c".
An example:
--
1.7.2.2.536.g42dab.dirty
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