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[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 3f7835f4a7fbb0d822e92462177e4f174ed893f4..379eee6734323ee566480d5f9159dd28ed27ecd2 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/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
@@ -43,7 +44,7 @@ imposes the following rules on how references are named:
 
 . They cannot contain a sequence `@{`.
 
-. They cannot contain a `\\`.
+. 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
@@ -60,7 +61,7 @@ reference name expressions (see linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]):
 . A colon `:` is used as in `srcref:dstref` to mean "use srcref\'s
   value and store it in dstref" in fetch and push operations.
   It may also be used to select a specific object such as with
-  'git-cat-file': "git cat-file blob v1.3.3:refs.c".
+  'git cat-file': "git cat-file blob v1.3.3:refs.c".
 
 . at-open-brace `@{` is used as a notation to access a reflog entry.