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| author | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2005-12-21 00:01:00 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2005-12-21 00:01:00 -0800 |
| commit | c2f3bf071ee90b01f2d629921bb04c4f798f02fa (patch) | |
| tree | 08ffe5b40e062d596deee47f3869278f4661a858 /Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt | |
| parent | GIT 0.99.9n aka 1.0rc6 (diff) | |
| parent | Make "git-send-pack" less verbose by default (diff) | |
| download | git-1.0.0.tar.gz git-1.0.0.zip | |
GIT 1.0.0v1.0.0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt index 636e9516b0..f7f84c644e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt @@ -26,13 +26,15 @@ imposes the following rules on how refs are named: . It cannot have ASCII control character (i.e. bytes whose values are lower than \040, or \177 `DEL`), space, tilde `~`, - caret `{caret}`, or colon `:` anywhere; + caret `{caret}`, colon `:`, question-mark `?`, asterisk `*`, + or open bracket `[` anywhere; . It cannot end with a slash `/`. These rules makes it easy for shell script based tools to parse -refnames, and also avoids ambiguities in certain refname -expressions (see gitlink:git-rev-parse[1]). Namely: +refnames, pathname expansion by the shell when a refname is used +unquoted (by mistake), and also avoids ambiguities in certain +refname expressions (see gitlink:git-rev-parse[1]). Namely: . double-dot `..` are often used as in `ref1..ref2`, and in some context this notation means `{caret}ref1 ref2` (i.e. not in |