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diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt index c1ce26884e..e9b3b40af4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git check-ref-format' <refname> -'git check-ref-format' [--branch] <branchname-shorthand> +'git check-ref-format' --branch <branchname-shorthand> DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -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 @@ -38,6 +42,8 @@ imposes the following rules on how references are named: . They cannot contain a sequence `@{`. +- They cannot contain a `\\`. + These rules make it easy for shell script based tools to parse reference names, pathname expansion by the shell when a reference name is used unquoted (by mistake), and also avoids ambiguities in certain @@ -57,8 +63,11 @@ reference name expressions (see linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]): . at-open-brace `@{` is used as a notation to access a reflog entry. -With the `--branch` option, it expands a branch name shorthand and -prints the name of the branch the shorthand refers to. +With the `--branch` option, it expands the ``previous branch syntax'' +`@{-n}`. For example, `@{-1}` is a way to refer the last branch you +were on. This option should be used by porcelains to accept this +syntax anywhere a branch name is expected, so they can act as if you +typed the branch name. EXAMPLE ------- |