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Documentation: remove stray backslashes in rev-parse manual
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Use the {asterisk} entity instead of \* or * to avoid both
stray backslashes in output and suppression of asterisks
misinterpreted as a bold-text delimiter.

Reported-by: Frédéric Brière <fbriere@fbriere.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jonathan Nieder authored and Junio C Hamano committed Aug 20, 2010
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@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ OPTIONS
properly quoted for consumption by shell. Useful when
you expect your parameter to contain whitespaces and
newlines (e.g. when using pickaxe `-S` with
'git diff-\*'). In contrast to the `--sq-quote` option,
'git diff-{asterisk}'). In contrast to the `--sq-quote` option,
the command input is still interpreted as usual.

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@@ -112,14 +112,15 @@ OPTIONS
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If a `pattern` is given, only refs matching the given shell glob are
shown. If the pattern does not contain a globbing character (`?`,
`\*`, or `[`), it is turned into a prefix match by appending `/\*`.
`{asterisk}`, or `[`), it is turned into a prefix match by
appending `/{asterisk}`.

--glob=pattern::
Show all refs matching the shell glob pattern `pattern`. If
the pattern does not start with `refs/`, this is automatically
prepended. If the pattern does not contain a globbing
character (`?`, `\*`, or `[`), it is turned into a prefix
match by appending `/\*`.
character (`?`, `{asterisk}`, or `[`), it is turned into a prefix
match by appending `/{asterisk}`.

--show-toplevel::
Show the absolute path of the top-level directory.

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