From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
To: jidanni@jidanni.org
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt: HEAD not symlink these days
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 03:44:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090106024443.GC21154@genesis.frugalware.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1231208319-12673-1-git-send-email-jidanni@jidanni.org>
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On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 10:18:39AM +0800, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> Branches in git are really nothing more than pointers into the git
> object database from within the `.git/refs/` subdirectory, and as we
> -already discussed, the `HEAD` branch is nothing but a symlink to one of
> +already discussed, the `HEAD` branch is nothing but a pointer to one of
> these object pointers.
The currect term for HEAD is a 'symref', see the glossary. ;-)
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2009-01-06 2:18 [PATCH] Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt: HEAD not symlink these days jidanni
2009-01-06 2:44 ` Miklos Vajna [this message]
2009-01-06 2:47 ` jidanni
2009-01-06 8:57 ` Miklos Vajna
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