diff --git a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-config.adoc b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-config.adoc
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--- a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-config.adoc
+++ b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-config.adoc
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
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 *{spring-cloud-version}*
 
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ To scale the Config Server up and make it highly available, you need to have all
 Even in that case, it is better to use the `ssh:` protocol for a shared filesystem repository, so that the server can clone it and use a local working copy as a cache.
 
 This repository implementation maps the `{label}` parameter of the HTTP resource to a git label (commit id, branch name, or tag).
-If the git branch or tag name contains a slash (`/`), then the label in the HTTP URL should instead be specified with the special string `{special-string}` (to avoid ambiguity with other URL paths).
+If the git branch or tag name contains a slash (`/`), then the label in the HTTP URL should instead be specified with the special string `({special-string})` (to avoid ambiguity with other URL paths).
 For example, if the label is `foo/bar`, replacing the slash would result in the following label: `foo({special-string})bar`.
 The inclusion of the special string `({special-string})` can also be applied to the `{application}` parameter.
 If you use a command-line client such as curl, be careful with the brackets in the URL -- you should