Merge branch 'master' into sb/opt-filename

* master: (654 commits)
  http-push.c::remove_locks(): fix use after free
  t/t3400-rebase.sh: add more tests to help migrating git-rebase.sh to C
  post-receive-email: hooks.showrev: show how to include both web link and patch
  MinGW: Fix compiler warning in merge-recursive
  MinGW: Add a simple getpass()
  MinGW: use POSIX signature of waitpid()
  MinGW: the path separator to split GITPERLLIB is ';' on Win32
  MinGW: Scan for \r in addition to \n when reading shbang lines
  gitweb: Sanitize title attribute in format_subject_html
  Terminate argv with NULL before calling setup_revisions()
  doc/git-rebase.txt: remove mention of multiple strategies
  git-send-email: Handle quotes when parsing .mailrc files
  git-svn: add --authors-prog option
  git-svn: Set svn.authorsfile if it is passed to git svn clone
  git-svn: Correctly report max revision when following deleted paths
  git-svn: Fix for svn paths removed > log-window-size revisions ago
  git-svn testsuite: use standard configuration for Subversion tools
  grep: fix word-regexp colouring
  completion: use git rev-parse to detect bare repos
  Cope better with a _lot_ of packs
  ...

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diff --git a/builtin-check-ref-format.c b/builtin-check-ref-format.c
index 701de439ae..f9381e07ea 100644
--- a/builtin-check-ref-format.c
+++ b/builtin-check-ref-format.c
@@ -5,9 +5,18 @@
 #include "cache.h"
 #include "refs.h"
 #include "builtin.h"
+#include "strbuf.h"
 
 int cmd_check_ref_format(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 {
+	if (argc == 3 && !strcmp(argv[1], "--branch")) {
+		struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
+
+		if (strbuf_check_branch_ref(&sb, argv[2]))
+			die("'%s' is not a valid branch name", argv[2]);
+		printf("%s\n", sb.buf + 11);
+		exit(0);
+	}
 	if (argc != 2)
 		usage("git check-ref-format refname");
 	return !!check_ref_format(argv[1]);