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authorLibravatar Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>2009-05-13 17:43:06 +0200
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-05-13 13:12:22 -0700
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parentbash completion: complete variable names for "git config" with options (diff)
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Documentation: clarify / requirement in 'git check-ref-format'
'git check-ref-format' checks for the presence of at least one '/', the idea being that there should be no refs directly below 'refs/', so there should be a category like 'heads/' or 'tags/' in a refname. Try and make this clearer in the man page. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
index c1ce26884e..0873e60f7f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ imposes the following rules on how references are named:
grouping, but no slash-separated component can begin with a
dot `.`.
+. They must contain at least one `/`. This enforces the presence of a
+ category like `heads/`, `tags/` etc. but the actual names are not
+ restricted.
+
. They cannot have two consecutive dots `..` anywhere.
. They cannot have ASCII control characters (i.e. bytes whose