# Re: \[PATCH v6 7/8\] update-ref: support multiple simultaneous updates

- From: Eric Sunshine \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-06-15 22:58:43 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/06/7611413
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/06/7609392/t.md

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On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Brad King [ref] wrote:
> On 09/10/2013 06:51 PM, Eric Sunshine wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Brad King [ref] wrote:
>>> +Use 40 "0" or the empty string to specify a zero value, except that
>>
>> Did you want an 's' after the "0"?
>
> The same description without 's' already appears in git-update-ref.txt
> above this location in the existing documentation of the command-line

Thanks for the explanation. (I could have checked the surrounding text
but didn't think to do so.)

> option behavior.  I see 0{40} in git-receive-pack.txt and also in
> howto/update-hook-example.txt.  Perhaps a follow-up change can be made
> to choose a consistent way to describe 40 0s.
>
> -Brad
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