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[PATCH] git-for-each-ref doesn't return "the bit after $GIT_DIR/refs"

From
APAndy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 5, 2007, 19:58 UTC
Message-ID
<200702051958.47237.andyparkins@gmail.com>

The documentation for git-for-each-ref said that the refname variable would return "the part after $GIT_DIR/refs/", which isn't true.

Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
index da52eba..f49b0d9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ keys.
 For all objects, the following names can be used:
 
 refname::
-	The name of the ref (the part after $GIT_DIR/refs/).
+	The name of the ref (the part after $GIT_DIR/).
 
 objecttype::
 	The type of the object (`blob`, `tree`, `commit`, `tag`).

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  1. git-for-each-ref doesn't return "the bit after $GIT_DIR/refs"Andy Parkins, Feb 5, 2007

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