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diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt index 103e7b128d..fc02959ba4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt @@ -18,14 +18,14 @@ DESCRIPTION Checks if a given 'refname' is acceptable, and exits with a non-zero status if it is not. -A reference is used in git to specify branches and tags. A +A reference is used in Git to specify branches and tags. A branch head is stored in the `refs/heads` hierarchy, while a tag is stored in the `refs/tags` hierarchy of the ref namespace (typically in `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads` and `$GIT_DIR/refs/tags` directories or, as entries in file `$GIT_DIR/packed-refs` if refs are packed by `git gc`). -git imposes the following rules on how references are named: +Git imposes the following rules on how references are named: . They can include slash `/` for hierarchical (directory) grouping, but no slash-separated component can begin with a @@ -40,9 +40,9 @@ git imposes the following rules on how references are named: . They cannot have ASCII control characters (i.e. bytes whose values are lower than \040, or \177 `DEL`), space, tilde `~`, - caret `{caret}`, or colon `:` anywhere. + caret `^`, or colon `:` anywhere. -. They cannot have question-mark `?`, asterisk `{asterisk}`, or open +. They cannot have question-mark `?`, asterisk `*`, or open bracket `[` anywhere. See the `--refspec-pattern` option below for an exception to this rule. @@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ git imposes the following rules on how references are named: . They cannot contain a sequence `@{`. +. They cannot be the single character `@`. + . They cannot contain a `\`. These rules make it easy for shell script based tools to parse @@ -62,10 +64,10 @@ unquoted (by mistake), and also avoids ambiguities in certain reference name expressions (see linkgit:gitrevisions[7]): . A double-dot `..` is often used as in `ref1..ref2`, and in some - contexts this notation means `{caret}ref1 ref2` (i.e. not in + contexts this notation means `^ref1 ref2` (i.e. not in `ref1` and in `ref2`). -. A tilde `~` and caret `{caret}` are used to introduce the postfix +. A tilde `~` and caret `^` are used to introduce the postfix 'nth parent' and 'peel onion' operation. . A colon `:` is used as in `srcref:dstref` to mean "use srcref\'s @@ -83,8 +85,7 @@ typed the branch name. OPTIONS ------- ---allow-onelevel:: ---no-allow-onelevel:: +--[no-]allow-onelevel:: Controls whether one-level refnames are accepted (i.e., refnames that do not contain multiple `/`-separated components). The default is `--no-allow-onelevel`. @@ -92,9 +93,9 @@ OPTIONS --refspec-pattern:: Interpret <refname> as a reference name pattern for a refspec (as used with remote repositories). If this option is - enabled, <refname> is allowed to contain a single `{asterisk}` + enabled, <refname> is allowed to contain a single `*` in place of a one full pathname component (e.g., - `foo/{asterisk}/bar` but not `foo/bar{asterisk}`). + `foo/*/bar` but not `foo/bar*`). --normalize:: Normalize 'refname' by removing any leading slash (`/`) |