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@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ or together with `-w`.
 Additionally to generated requirements you can supply multiple file names to `%pyproject_buildrequires` macro.
 Dependencies will be loaded from them:
 
-    %pyproject_buildrequires -r requirements/tests.in requirements/docs.in requirements/dev.in
+    %pyproject_buildrequires requirements/tests.in requirements/docs.in requirements/dev.in
 
 For packages not using build system you can use `-N` to entirely skip automatical
 generation of requirements and install requirements only from manually specified files.