diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt
index 3ca122faed..60ba300117 100644
--- a/Documentation/urls.txt
+++ b/Documentation/urls.txt
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ For local repositories, also supported by Git natively, the following
 syntaxes may be used:
 
 - /path/to/repo.git/
-- file:///path/to/repo.git/
+- \file:///path/to/repo.git/
 
 ifndef::git-clone[]
 These two syntaxes are mostly equivalent, except when cloning, when