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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/revisions.txt | 3 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt index ec1739a896..e8035ece42 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt @@ -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 diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index d477b3f6bc..09896a37b1 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ the '$GIT_DIR/refs' directory or from the '$GIT_DIR/packed-refs' file. While the ref name encoding is unspecified, UTF-8 is preferred as some output processing may assume ref names in UTF-8. +'@':: + '@' alone is a shortcut for 'HEAD'. + '<refname>@\{<date>\}', e.g. 'master@\{yesterday\}', 'HEAD@\{5 minutes ago\}':: A ref followed by the suffix '@' with a date specification enclosed in a brace |