doc: check-ignore: code-quote an exclamation mark
The plain quoted exclamation mark renders as italics in the Windows pdf help manual. Fix this with back-tick quoting and surrounding double quotes as exemplified by the gitignore.txt guide. While at it, fix the surrounding double quotes for the other special characters usages. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ OPTIONS
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Instead of printing the paths that are excluded, for each path
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that matches an exclude pattern, print the exclude pattern
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together with the path. (Matching an exclude pattern usually
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- means the path is excluded, but if the pattern begins with '!'
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+ means the path is excluded, but if the pattern begins with "`!`"
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then it is a negated pattern and matching it means the path is
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NOT excluded.)
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@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ If `--verbose` is specified, the output is a series of lines of the form:
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<pathname> is the path of a file being queried, <pattern> is the
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matching pattern, <source> is the pattern's source file, and <linenum>
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is the line number of the pattern within that source. If the pattern
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-contained a `!` prefix or `/` suffix, it will be preserved in the
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+contained a "`!`" prefix or "`/`" suffix, it will be preserved in the
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output. <source> will be an absolute path when referring to the file
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configured by `core.excludesFile`, or relative to the repository root
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when referring to `.git/info/exclude` or a per-directory exclude file.