Document 'stash clear' recovery via unreachable commits

[git.git] / Documentation / git-check-ref-format.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
index c1ce26884e73f1599602472ba5032988486cc465..0b7982ea76633e45b8d3073cd275ea74a757c0eb 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ imposes the following rules on how references are named:
   grouping, but no slash-separated component can begin with a
   dot `.`.
 
+. 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.
 
 . They cannot have ASCII control characters (i.e. bytes whose
@@ -38,6 +42,8 @@ imposes the following rules on how references are named:
 
 . They cannot contain a sequence `@{`.
 
+- They cannot contain a `\\`.
+
 These rules make it easy for shell script based tools to parse
 reference names, pathname expansion by the shell when a reference name is used
 unquoted (by mistake), and also avoids ambiguities in certain