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diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt index c1ce26884e..bf43454415 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt @@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ 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 |