From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jari Aalto Subject: [PATCH] git-tag(1): Refer to git-check-ref-format(1) for Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:20:32 +0300 Organization: Private Message-ID: <8763d2klen.fsf@jondo.cante.net> References: <87ab2gsqst.fsf@jondo.cante.net> <7veirs6qxn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 05 23:27:59 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MYo1f-0004tV-1g for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:27:59 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751930AbZHEV1t (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Aug 2009 17:27:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751267AbZHEV1t (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Aug 2009 17:27:49 -0400 Received: from emh07.mail.saunalahti.fi ([62.142.5.117]:60666 "EHLO emh07.mail.saunalahti.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751095AbZHEV1t (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Aug 2009 17:27:49 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 431 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:27:48 EDT Received: from saunalahti-vams (vs3-12.mail.saunalahti.fi [62.142.5.96]) by emh07-2.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with SMTP id 1D66B18D2DB; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 00:20:37 +0300 (EEST) Received: from emh03.mail.saunalahti.fi ([62.142.5.109]) by vs3-12.mail.saunalahti.fi ([62.142.5.96]) with SMTP (gateway) id A05884CE18C; Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:20:36 +0300 Received: from jondo.cante.net (a91-155-187-216.elisa-laajakaista.fi [91.155.187.216]) by emh03.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE8ED158A62; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 00:20:33 +0300 (EEST) References: <87ab2gsqst.fsf@jondo.cante.net> <7veirs6qxn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <7veirs6qxn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:20:20 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-Antivirus: VAMS Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Explain briefly what characters are prohibited in tag and point to git-check-ref-format(1) manual page for further information. Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto --- Documentation/git-tag.txt | 5 ++++- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt index fa73321..1118ce2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt @@ -17,7 +17,10 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Adds a 'tag' reference in `.git/refs/tags/` + +Adds a 'tag' reference in `.git/refs/tags/`. The tag must pass +linkgit:git-check-ref-format[1] which basicly means that control characters, +space, ~, ^, :, ?, *, [ and \ are prohibited. Unless `-f` is given, the tag must not yet exist in `.git/refs/tags/` directory. -- 1.6.3.3