* [PATCH] Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt: HEAD not symlink these days
@ 2009-01-06 2:18 jidanni
2009-01-06 2:44 ` Miklos Vajna
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: jidanni @ 2009-01-06 2:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git; +Cc: gitster
Signed-off-by: jidanni <jidanni@jidanni.org>
---
Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
index e4dd551..05328cf 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
@@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ Creating a new branch
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.
You can at any time create a new branch by just picking an arbitrary
--
1.6.0.6
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* Re: [PATCH] Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt: HEAD not symlink these days
2009-01-06 2:18 [PATCH] Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt: HEAD not symlink these days jidanni
@ 2009-01-06 2:44 ` Miklos Vajna
2009-01-06 2:47 ` jidanni
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Miklos Vajna @ 2009-01-06 2:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: jidanni; +Cc: git, gitster
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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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* Re: [PATCH] Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt: HEAD not symlink these days
2009-01-06 2:44 ` Miklos Vajna
@ 2009-01-06 2:47 ` jidanni
2009-01-06 8:57 ` Miklos Vajna
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: jidanni @ 2009-01-06 2:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: vmiklos; +Cc: git, gitster
MV> The currect term for HEAD is a 'symref', see the glossary. ;-)
OK please change it for me, as today is my junior patching practice
day, and a patch to a patch is way over my head.
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* Re: [PATCH] Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt: HEAD not symlink these days
2009-01-06 2:47 ` jidanni
@ 2009-01-06 8:57 ` Miklos Vajna
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Miklos Vajna @ 2009-01-06 8:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: jidanni; +Cc: git, gitster
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On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 10:47:35AM +0800, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> OK please change it for me, as today is my junior patching practice
> day, and a patch to a patch is way over my head.
I can, but in the longer term, I think it's better if you learn to use
git rebase -i / git commit --amend. You can do it tomorrow as well.
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