"**" means bold in ASCIIDOC, so we need to escape it. This is similar to 8447dc8 (gitignore.txt: fix documentation of "**" patterns - 2013-11-07) Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> --- There is another instance of '**' in RelNotes/1.8.5.txt. Junio you may want to fix it too. Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index e22b524..1b56ba4 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -362,12 +362,12 @@ full pathname may have special meaning: - A leading "`**`" followed by a slash means match in all directories. For example, "`**/foo`" matches file or directory - "`foo`" anywhere, the same as pattern "`foo`". "**/foo/bar" + "`foo`" anywhere, the same as pattern "`foo`". "`**/foo/bar`" matches file or directory "`bar`" anywhere that is directly under directory "`foo`". - - A trailing "/**" matches everything inside. For example, - "abc/**" matches all files inside directory "abc", relative + - A trailing "`/**`" matches everything inside. For example, + "`abc/**`" matches all files inside directory "abc", relative to the location of the `.gitignore` file, with infinite depth. - A slash followed by two consecutive asterisks then a slash -- 1.8.2.82.gc24b958 -- 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