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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt | 4 |
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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 |