--- a/doc/hgignore.5.txt Wed Jun 10 03:10:46 2009 +0200
+++ b/doc/hgignore.5.txt Wed Jun 10 03:20:20 2009 +0200
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@
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An ignore file is a plain text file consisting of a list of patterns,
-with one pattern per line. Empty lines are skipped. The "#" character
-is treated as a comment character, and the "\" character is treated as
+with one pattern per line. Empty lines are skipped. The "``#``" character
+is treated as a comment character, and the "``\``" character is treated as
an escape character.
Mercurial supports several pattern syntaxes. The default syntax used
@@ -54,9 +54,9 @@
follow, until another syntax is selected.
Neither glob nor regexp patterns are rooted. A glob-syntax pattern of
-the form "*.c" will match a file ending in ".c" in any directory, and
-a regexp pattern of the form "\.c$" will do the same. To root a regexp
-pattern, start it with "^".
+the form "``*.c``" will match a file ending in "``.c``" in any directory, and
+a regexp pattern of the form "``\.c$``" will do the same. To root a regexp
+pattern, start it with "``^``".
EXAMPLE
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