My guess is that he was confused by '<ref>:' not meaning '<ref>:<ref>'.
But I can't speak for him ofcource :)
Refspecs confused me too at the beginning... But knowing more and more
about git, it seems that this part of the docs look OK to me.. At most
an example might make things a little more clear, but I doubt it is
necessary.
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