Merge branch 'maint-1.9' into maint

* maint-1.9:
Documentation: fix missing text for rev-parse --verify

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 987395d22af915832c535840ef59927fc5125294..54143a0693da895035187a04f58f59cf92105fa2 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ eval "set -- $(git rev-parse --sq --prefix "$prefix" "$@")"
 +
 If you want to make sure that the output actually names an object in
 your object database and/or can be used as a specific type of object
-you require, you can add "^{type}" peeling operator to the parameter.
+you require, you can add "\^{type}" peeling operator to the parameter.
 For example, `git rev-parse "$VAR^{commit}"` will make sure `$VAR`
 names an existing object that is a commit-ish (i.e. a commit, or an
 annotated tag that points at a commit).  To make sure that `$VAR`