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doc: check-ignore: code-quote an exclamation mark

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The plain quoted exclamation mark renders as italics in the
Windows pdf help manual.

Fix this with back-tick quoting and surrounding double quotes
as exemplified by the gitignore.txt guide.

While at it, fix  the surrounding double quotes for the other
special characters usages.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Philip Oakley 2022-02-03 10:16:43 +00:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ OPTIONS
Instead of printing the paths that are excluded, for each path
that matches an exclude pattern, print the exclude pattern
together with the path. (Matching an exclude pattern usually
means the path is excluded, but if the pattern begins with '!'
means the path is excluded, but if the pattern begins with "`!`"
then it is a negated pattern and matching it means the path is
NOT excluded.)
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@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ If `--verbose` is specified, the output is a series of lines of the form:
<pathname> is the path of a file being queried, <pattern> is the
matching pattern, <source> is the pattern's source file, and <linenum>
is the line number of the pattern within that source. If the pattern
contained a `!` prefix or `/` suffix, it will be preserved in the
contained a "`!`" prefix or "`/`" suffix, it will be preserved in the
output. <source> will be an absolute path when referring to the file
configured by `core.excludesFile`, or relative to the repository root
when referring to `.git/info/exclude` or a per-directory exclude file.