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Documentation: clarify / requirement in 'git check-ref-format'

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'git check-ref-format' checks for the presence of at least one '/', the
idea being that there should be no refs directly below 'refs/', so there
should be a category like 'heads/' or 'tags/' in a refname.

Try and make this clearer in the man page.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ imposes the following rules on how references are named:
grouping, but no slash-separated component can begin with a
dot `.`.
. They must contain at least one `/`. This enforces the presence of a
category like `heads/`, `tags/` etc. but the actual names are not
restricted.
. They cannot have two consecutive dots `..` anywhere.
. They cannot have ASCII control characters (i.e. bytes whose