Merge branch 'jn/maint-doc-dashdash' into jn/doc-dashdash

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / git-commit.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index 7951cb7b005bf472c449a563d073036ceb8b921a..5cc84a139133dca2fdcb594007c8b0d6464d5ca8 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ When recording your own work, the contents of modified files in
 your working tree are temporarily stored to a staging area
 called the "index" with 'git add'.  A file can be
 reverted back, only in the index but not in the working tree,
-to that of the last commit with `git reset HEAD -- <file>`,
+to that of the last commit with `git reset HEAD \-- <file>`,
 which effectively reverts 'git add' and prevents the changes to
 this file from participating in the next commit.  After building
 the state to be committed incrementally with these commands,