Use the {asterisk} entity to avoid mistreating the asterisks in "(e.g., refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*)" as delimiters for bold text. >From a quick search with 'git grep -e "\*.*\*"', this seems to be the last example of this particular formatting problem. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> --- Noticed while reading the pull --rebase documentation[1] suggestions. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/162837 Documentation/git-pull.txt | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt index e47361f..a421789 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt @@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ With `--rebase`, it runs 'git rebase' instead of 'git merge'. passed to linkgit:git-fetch[1]. <refspec> can name an arbitrary remote ref (for example, the name of a tag) or even a collection of refs with corresponding remote-tracking branches -(e.g., refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*), but usually it is -the name of a branch in the remote repository. +(e.g., `refs/heads/{asterisk}:refs/remotes/origin/{asterisk}`), +but usually it is the name of a branch in the remote repository. Default values for <repository> and <branch> are read from the "remote" and "merge" configuration for the current branch -- 1.7.2.4 -- 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