Thanks all for the feedback. On 2017-02-19 21:40, Philip Oakley wrote: > For those not familiar with 'iff', then a change to the doc is worthwhile. Exactly. Not being a native English speaker, I had never seen 'iff' used before. Now that you guys have pointed me to its meaning I guess it makes sense in this context. That being said, IMHO software documentation is not a mathematics textbook, and should be written in "plain" English, so On 2017-02-19 03:27, Jeff King wrote: > So maybe an overall improvement would be something like: > > If the normalized refname is valid then print it to standard output > and exit with a status of 0. Otherwise, exit with a non-zero status. I'll submit a revised patch shortly, following your suggestion. Cheers Damien