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| author | Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> | 2006-05-20 21:54:46 -0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2006-05-21 02:05:41 -0700 |
| commit | 2b1f4247ab5881cfde1d35ca3e3c48b7de8f449c (patch) | |
| tree | 55ea94700e0fda51f94c54540ae0601ffbfb85c0 | |
| parent | 8824689884a5673f803d77cda499f83b84145a06 (diff) | |
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Reference git-check-ref-format in git-branch.
Its nice to have git-check-ref-format actually get mentioned in
git-branch's documentation as the syntax of a ref name must conform
to what is described in git-check-ref-format.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-branch.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 5 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt index 72fb2f89b..0b37e2bfc 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt @@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ OPTIONS <branchname>:: The name of the branch to create or delete. + The new branch name must pass all checks defined by + gitlink:git-check-ref-format[1]. Some of these checks + may restrict the characters allowed in a branch name. <start-point>:: The new branch will be created with a HEAD equal to this. It may diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 095128906..d82efc00d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -35,7 +35,10 @@ OPTIONS Force a re-read of everything. -b:: - Create a new branch and start it at <branch>. + Create a new branch named <new_branch> and start it at + <branch>. The new branch name must pass all checks defined + by gitlink:git-check-ref-format[1]. Some of these checks + may restrict the characters allowed in a branch name. -m:: If you have local modifications to one or more files that |