Doc: fix misleading asciidoc formating

diff --git a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
index 00a22152a22b1d877f8bd75ee5063a0b6d28cbf0..bc80905a8a06b5121e2c33c83844301a8212c28c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ them.
        Consider only commits that are enough to explain how the files
        that match the specified paths came to be.
 +
-Paths may need to be prefixed with "\-- " to separate them from
+Paths may need to be prefixed with `--` to separate them from
 options or the revision range, when confusion arises.
 
 MAPPING AUTHORS