[PATCH 5/5] glossary: clarify description of HEAD
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Jun 23, 2011, 16:52 UTC
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HEAD on a branch does reference a commit via the branch ref it refers to. The main difference of a detached HEAD is that it _directly_ refers to a commit. Clarify this.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> --- Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index dd690bd..f79da21 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ to point at the new commit. working tree>> is normally derived from the state of the tree referred to by HEAD. HEAD is a reference to one of the <<def_head,heads>> in your repository, except when using a - <<def_detached_HEAD,detached HEAD>>, in which case it may + <<def_detached_HEAD,detached HEAD>>, in which case it may directly reference an arbitrary commit. [[def_head_ref]]head ref::
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