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@@ -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