From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:52:38 GMT Subject: [PATCH 5/5] glossary: clarify description of HEAD Message-ID: <1308847958-3429-6-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <1308847958-3429-1-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> 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 --- 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 <> in your repository, except when using a - <>, in which case it may + <>, in which case it may directly reference an arbitrary commit. [[def_head_ref]]head ref:: -- 1.7.6.rc3