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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rm.txt b/Documentation/git-rm.txt
index c21d19e573..71e3d9fc23 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rm.txt
@@ -78,7 +78,8 @@ a file that you have not told git about does not remove that file.
File globbing matches across directory boundaries. Thus, given
two directories `d` and `d2`, there is a difference between
-using `git rm \'d\*\'` and `git rm \'d/\*\'`, as the former will
+using `git rm {apostrophe}d{asterisk}{apostrophe}` and
+`git rm {apostrophe}d/{asterisk}{apostrophe}`, as the former will
also remove all of directory `d2`.
REMOVING FILES THAT HAVE DISAPPEARED FROM THE FILESYSTEM
@@ -135,11 +136,11 @@ git diff --name-only --diff-filter=D -z | xargs -0 git rm --cached
EXAMPLES
--------
-git rm Documentation/\\*.txt::
- Removes all `\*.txt` files from the index that are under the
+git rm Documentation/\*.txt::
+ Removes all `*.txt` files from the index that are under the
`Documentation` directory and any of its subdirectories.
+
-Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
+Note that the asterisk `*` is quoted from the shell in this
example; this lets git, and not the shell, expand the pathnames
of files and subdirectories under the `Documentation/` directory.