diff --git a/doc/git-interface.txt b/doc/git-interface.txt
index f940961..a029400 100644
--- a/doc/git-interface.txt
+++ b/doc/git-interface.txt
@@ -100,9 +100,9 @@ opposite effect in the case of aurweb: Most of the refs transferred to the
 client during `git push` operations belong to branches of other package bases
 and are essentially useless.
 
-In order to omit these advertisements, one can add the strings "^refs/",
-"!refs/" and "!HEAD" to the transfer.hideRefs configuration setting. Note that
-the order of these patterns is important ("^refs/" must come first) and that
+In order to omit these advertisements, one can add the strings `^refs/`,
+`!refs/` and `!HEAD` to the transfer.hideRefs configuration setting. Note that
+the order of these patterns is important (`^refs/` must come first) and that
 Git 2.7 or newer is required for them to work.
 
 Since garbage collection always affects all objects (from all namespaces), it