From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miklos Vajna Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt: HEAD not symlink these days Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 03:44:43 +0100 Message-ID: <20090106024443.GC21154@genesis.frugalware.org> References: <1231208319-12673-1-git-send-email-jidanni@jidanni.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FdZ5NtWbL8qlnu/5" Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com To: jidanni@jidanni.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 06 03:46:20 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LK1xS-0003cu-J6 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:46:19 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751481AbZAFCor (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2009 21:44:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751063AbZAFCor (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2009 21:44:47 -0500 Received: from virgo.iok.hu ([212.40.97.103]:37742 "EHLO virgo.iok.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750738AbZAFCoq (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2009 21:44:46 -0500 Received: from kag.elte.hu (kag.elte.hu [157.181.177.1]) by virgo.iok.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26C88580AC; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 03:44:46 +0100 (CET) Received: from genesis.frugalware.org (frugalware.elte.hu [157.181.177.34]) by kag.elte.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B1EC4465E; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 03:44:44 +0100 (CET) Received: by genesis.frugalware.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DCF8711B8630; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 03:44:43 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1231208319-12673-1-git-send-email-jidanni@jidanni.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --FdZ5NtWbL8qlnu/5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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. ;-) --FdZ5NtWbL8qlnu/5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAklixZsACgkQe81tAgORUJZMcACeKtmIF0YzdQ+w0/10UvS3b1uW M4MAn3KuQ+O+IR8ps6lpx4MkCXpKtXOz =zsiZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FdZ5NtWbL8qlnu/5--