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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-show-ref.txt6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
index 3c45895299..fcee0008a9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ OPTIONS
-d::
--dereference::
- Dereference tags into object IDs as well. They will be shown with "^{}"
+ Dereference tags into object IDs as well. They will be shown with "{caret}{}"
appended.
-s::
@@ -73,9 +73,9 @@ OPTIONS
--exclude-existing[=<pattern>]::
Make 'git show-ref' act as a filter that reads refs from stdin of the
- form "^(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:{backslash}{caret}\{\})?$"
+ form "`{caret}(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:{backslash}{caret}{})?$`"
and performs the following actions on each:
- (1) strip "^{}" at the end of line if any;
+ (1) strip "{caret}{}" at the end of line if any;
(2) ignore if pattern is provided and does not head-match refname;
(3) warn if refname is not a well-formed refname and skip;
(4) ignore if refname is a ref that exists in the local repository;