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-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitignore.txt4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index e10fa88b8c..7dc2e8b0bc 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -90,12 +90,12 @@ Patterns have the following format:
- Otherwise, git treats the pattern as a shell glob suitable
for consumption by fnmatch(3) with the FNM_PATHNAME flag:
wildcards in the pattern will not match a / in the pathname.
- For example, "Documentation/\*.html" matches
+ For example, "Documentation/{asterisk}.html" matches
"Documentation/git.html" but not "Documentation/ppc/ppc.html"
or "tools/perf/Documentation/perf.html".
- A leading slash matches the beginning of the pathname.
- For example, "/*.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not
+ For example, "/{asterisk}.c" matches "cat-file.c" but not
"mozilla-sha1/sha1.c".
An example: