when you run `git cherry-pick`.
+
Note that any of the 'refs/*' cases above may come either from
-the '$GIT_DIR/refs' directory or from the '$GIT_DIR/packed-refs' file.
+the `$GIT_DIR/refs` directory or from the `$GIT_DIR/packed-refs` file.
While the ref name encoding is unspecified, UTF-8 is preferred as
some output processing may assume ref names in UTF-8.
`git push` were run while `branchname` was checked out (or the current
`HEAD` if no branchname is specified). Since our push destination is
in a remote repository, of course, we report the local tracking branch
- that corresponds to that branch (i.e., something in 'refs/remotes/').
+ that corresponds to that branch (i.e., something in `refs/remotes/`).
+
Here's an example to make it more clear:
+
A colon, followed by a slash, followed by a text, names
a commit whose commit message matches the specified regular expression.
This name returns the youngest matching commit which is
- reachable from any ref. The regular expression can match any part of the
+ reachable from any ref, including HEAD.
+ The regular expression can match any part of the
commit message. To match messages starting with a string, one can use
e.g. ':/^foo'. The special sequence ':/!' is reserved for modifiers to what
is matched. ':/!-foo' performs a negative match, while ':/!!foo' matches a