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| author | Junio C Hamano <junio@kernel.org> | 2010-02-19 09:58:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junio@kernel.org> | 2010-02-19 09:58:14 +0000 |
| commit | 4fdccb253a7d0538b30705e7408311950c78fae4 (patch) | |
| tree | 8f816c4d339f6e75de193fa3f58fb9b356ea0360 /git-check-ref-format.txt | |
| parent | 85c44a9175871f71ce4f18363a471d0eca43fb08 (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-4fdccb253a7d0538b30705e7408311950c78fae4.tar.gz | |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.7.0-50-g50c1
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diff --git a/git-check-ref-format.txt b/git-check-ref-format.txt index e1c4320f0..379eee673 100644 --- a/git-check-ref-format.txt +++ b/git-check-ref-format.txt @@ -19,8 +19,9 @@ status if it is not. A reference is used in git to specify branches and tags. A branch head is stored under the `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads` directory, and -a tag is stored under the `$GIT_DIR/refs/tags` directory. git -imposes the following rules on how references are named: +a tag is stored under the `$GIT_DIR/refs/tags` directory (or, if refs +are packed by `git gc`, as entries in the `$GIT_DIR/packed-refs` file). +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 |