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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-update-ref.txt4
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt
index 6aaa7339d7..61647ee841 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt
@@ -25,10 +25,6 @@ value is <old-oid>. You can specify 40 "0" or an empty string
as <old-oid> to make sure that the ref you are creating does
not exist.
-It also allows a "ref" file to be a symbolic pointer to another
-ref file by starting with the four-byte header sequence of
-"ref:".
-
If --no-deref is given, <ref> itself is overwritten, rather than
the result of following the symbolic pointers.