Unquoted semicolons are considered shell argument separators, quote
them so the example works correctly.
Signed-off-by: Douglas Fuller <douglas.fuller@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/gitcredentials.txt | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt
b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt
index 1814d2d23c..fb16c71cfe 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ foo --bar="whitespace arg"
/path/to/my/helper --with-arguments
# or you can specify your own shell snippet
-!f() { echo "password=`cat $HOME/.secret`"; }; f
+"!f() { echo password=`cat $HOME/.secret`; }; f"
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Generally speaking, rule (3) above is the simplest for users to
specify.
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2.26.2
