docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / git-check-ref-format.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
index 103e7b128d3a0d2b1c06da89d4a577f9548ba4f4..98009d1bd50271945637e813cc1fe8ec4161f5a5 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
@@ -40,9 +40,9 @@ git imposes the following rules on how references are named:
 
 . They cannot have ASCII control characters (i.e. bytes whose
   values are lower than \040, or \177 `DEL`), space, tilde `~`,
-  caret `{caret}`, or colon `:` anywhere.
+  caret `^`, or colon `:` anywhere.
 
-. They cannot have question-mark `?`, asterisk `{asterisk}`, or open
+. They cannot have question-mark `?`, asterisk `*`, or open
   bracket `[` anywhere.  See the `--refspec-pattern` option below for
   an exception to this rule.
 
@@ -62,10 +62,10 @@ unquoted (by mistake), and also avoids ambiguities in certain
 reference name expressions (see linkgit:gitrevisions[7]):
 
 . A double-dot `..` is often used as in `ref1..ref2`, and in some
-  contexts this notation means `{caret}ref1 ref2` (i.e. not in
+  contexts this notation means `^ref1 ref2` (i.e. not in
   `ref1` and in `ref2`).
 
-. A tilde `~` and caret `{caret}` are used to introduce the postfix
+. A tilde `~` and caret `^` are used to introduce the postfix
   'nth parent' and 'peel onion' operation.
 
 . A colon `:` is used as in `srcref:dstref` to mean "use srcref\'s
@@ -92,9 +92,9 @@ OPTIONS
 --refspec-pattern::
        Interpret <refname> as a reference name pattern for a refspec
        (as used with remote repositories).  If this option is
-       enabled, <refname> is allowed to contain a single `{asterisk}`
+       enabled, <refname> is allowed to contain a single `*`
        in place of a one full pathname component (e.g.,
-       `foo/{asterisk}/bar` but not `foo/bar{asterisk}`).
+       `foo/*/bar` but not `foo/bar*`).
 
 --normalize::
        Normalize 'refname' by removing any leading slash (`/`)