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-rw-r--r--Documentation/glossary-content.txt6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
index e4706615be..aa1c8880dd 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