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From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>,
	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Host refs to push are chosen (documentation error)?
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:51:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <32541b131002171751n454081a9w90f2957d7a40d87@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100218011620.GA15870@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> Agreed. It's a minor point, but one that can mislead users who don't
> know about packed refs. Maybe something like this?

Wow, you really go all out.  Looks pretty good to me, except maybe this:

> ++
> +For any of the `$GIT_DIR/refs` cases above, packed refs from
> +`$GIT_DIR/packed-refs` may be substituted (e.g., a line with
> +`refs/heads/master` in the packed-refs file would have the same
> +precedence as the file `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/master`).

Are they really equal precedence?  How does git decide, when there's
one of each?  I'd guess packed-refs might actually be strictly higher
precedence, but I'm not sure.

Avery

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-18  1:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-17 13:27 Host refs to push are chosen (documentation error)? Andrey Borzenkov
2010-02-17 13:39 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-02-17 17:39   ` Avery Pennarun
2010-02-18  1:16     ` Jeff King
2010-02-18  1:51       ` Avery Pennarun [this message]
2010-02-18  2:04         ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-18  2:10           ` Jeff King
2010-02-18  4:06             ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-18  4:43               ` Jeff King
2010-02-18  5:13                 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-18  2:04         ` Jeff King
2010-02-18  7:19       ` Andrey Borzenkov

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