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


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