diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
index cd0685ea67d..a33382ec2d0 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ Legacy monitoring operations are not supported (edit, watch and related).
 Exports and tagging (tags and branches) are not supported at this stage.
 
 CRLF Line Ending Conversions
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 By default the server leaves the '-k' mode blank for all files,
 which causes the cvs client to treat them as a text files, subject