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@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Building libgit2 - Using CMake
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 libgit2 builds cleanly on most platforms without any external dependencies.
-Under Unix-like systems, like Linux, * BSD and Mac OS X, libgit2 expects `pthreads` to be available;
+Under Unix-like systems, like Linux, \*BSD and Mac OS X, libgit2 expects `pthreads` to be available;
 they should be installed by default on all systems. Under Windows, libgit2 uses the native Windows API
 for threading.