--- OLD/man1/git-read-tree.1	Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
+++ NEW/man1/git-read-tree.1	Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
 but before running
 make clean
 to remove the generated file\. This option tells the command to read per\-directory exclude file (usually
-\fI\.gitignore\fR) and allows such an untracked but explicitly ignored file to be overwritten\.
+\fI\&\.gitignore\fR) and allows such an untracked but explicitly ignored file to be overwritten\.
 .RE
 .PP
 \-\-index\-output=<file>