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[PATCH] Documentation: clarify glossary definition of "reachable"

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JFJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date
Jan 8, 2007, 00:28 UTC
Message-ID
<20070108002839.GF18009@fieldses.org>
Clarify glossary definition of "reachable" (what chain?)
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
---
 Documentation/glossary.txt |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary.txt b/Documentation/glossary.txt
index 7c1a659..5886fa7 100644
--- a/Documentation/glossary.txt
+++ b/Documentation/glossary.txt
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ push::
 
 reachable::
 	An object is reachable from a ref/commit/tree/tag, if there is a
-	chain leading from the latter to the former.
+	chain of parent commits leading from the latter to the former.
 
 rebase::
 	To clean a branch by starting from the head of the main line of
-- 
1.5.0.rc0.ge16c2
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