diff --git a/doc/todo/making_it_easier_to_smudge_dotfiles/comment_1_73ad5cd7f65c94a1db859d22eb6eece4._comment b/doc/todo/making_it_easier_to_smudge_dotfiles/comment_1_73ad5cd7f65c94a1db859d22eb6eece4._comment
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--- a/doc/todo/making_it_easier_to_smudge_dotfiles/comment_1_73ad5cd7f65c94a1db859d22eb6eece4._comment
+++ b/doc/todo/making_it_easier_to_smudge_dotfiles/comment_1_73ad5cd7f65c94a1db859d22eb6eece4._comment
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ anything.
 
 So, this could be dealt with in annex.largefiles. Both `anything` and
 `include=*` currently match dotfiles. It's kind of weird really that `*`
-matches dotfiles; it does not in the shell. If *` did not match dotfiles
+matches dotfiles; it does not in the shell. If `*` did not match dotfiles
 (and `anything` is just an alias for `include=*`), it would be fairly safe
 to remove the `.* !filter` line by default. (If annex.largefiles has a
 content-based setting, and a dotfile is large enough or the right mime type