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

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Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date
Jan 6, 2009, 02:44 UTC
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<20090106024443.GC21154@genesis.frugalware.org>
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On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 10:18:39AM +0800, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
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>  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.
The currect term for HEAD is a 'symref', see the glossary. ;-)
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