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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-05-02 13:51:45 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-05-02 13:51:45 -0700 |
| commit | d274fc093cbdcddbf9aff5f79de4e9445f3363d7 (patch) | |
| tree | 0abf168a8760bee8686a8836b4b29a366eab0118 /Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt | |
| parent | 1be65eda6a7018445ebdd9cfec4b1caab4db34ba (diff) | |
| parent | 6cf378f0cbe7c7f944637892caeb9058c90a185a (diff) | |
| download | git-d274fc093cbdcddbf9aff5f79de4e9445f3363d7.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'jk/doc-asciidoc-inline-literal'
Our documentation was written for an ancient version of AsciiDoc,
making the source not very readable.
By Jeff King
* jk/doc-asciidoc-inline-literal:
docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt index 103e7b128d..98009d1bd5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt @@ -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. @@ -62,10 +62,10 @@ 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 @@ -92,9 +92,9 @@ 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 (`/`) |