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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt | 2 |
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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 |