From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:44:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt: HEAD not symlink these days
Message-ID: <20090106024443.GC21154@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <1231208319-12673-1-git-send-email-jidanni@jidanni.org>

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 10:18:39AM +0800, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
>  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. ;-)