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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-05-23 12:39:45 +0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-05-23 12:39:45 +0400 |
| commit | e05aae684d453695bc5bd1e66aa96bc7d42e186a (patch) | |
| tree | 6e4e87717266383da704063fca3e9db42c081b23 /Documentation | |
| parent | 5eb3d945539ece1f305669688ffb981f38bb4337 (diff) | |
| parent | a4c2e69936df8dd0b071b85664c6cc6a4870dd84 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'rr/forbid-bs-in-ref'
* rr/forbid-bs-in-ref:
Disallow '\' in ref names
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt index 0873e60f7f..0b7982ea76 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt @@ -42,6 +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 |