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[PATCH] Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt: HEAD not symlink these days

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jidanni@jidanni.org <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Date
Jan 6, 2009, 02:18 UTC
Message-ID
<1231208319-12673-1-git-send-email-jidanni@jidanni.org>
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
Next: Miklos Vajna
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  1. Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt: HEAD not symlink these daysjidanni@jidanni.org, Jan 6, 2009
  2. Miklos VajnaJan 6, 2009
  3. jidanni@jidanni.orgJan 6, 2009
  4. Miklos VajnaJan 6, 2009

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