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.