From: Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 02:36:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: clarify / requirement in 'git check-ref-format'
Message-ID: <93c3eada0905171936u2e6d67d5mc7eb80936b710a6b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1242229386-27486-1-git-send-email-git@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Michael J Gruber
<git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
> 'git check-ref-format' checks for the presence of at least one '/', the
> idea being that there should be no refs directly below 'refs/', so there
> should be a category like 'heads/' or 'tags/' in a refname.
>
> Try and make this clearer in the man page.
>
> [....snip]
> +. They must contain at least one `/`. This enforces the presence of a
> +  category like `heads/`, `tags/` etc. but the actual names are not
> +  restricted.
> +
>  . They cannot have two consecutive dots `..` anywhere.
>
> [ ...snip]

Ah, okay. This is clear. Many thanks.

Cheers,
Geoff