remote: fix set-branches usage and documentation

[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 7422185bf53c08f97f0e17358b11b5243ac1e393..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
@@ -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.