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[PATCH] doc: remove reference to the traditional layout in git-tag.txt

From
YKYounes Khoudli <younes.khoudli@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 20, 2016, 13:21 UTC
Message-ID
<20161020132144.6018-1-younes.khoudli@gmail.com>

This is the only place in the documentation that the traditional layout is mentioned, and it is confusing. Remove it.

* Documentation/git-tag.txt: Here.
Signed-off-by: Younes Khoudli <younes.khoudli@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-tag.txt | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
index 7ecca8e..80019c5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
@@ -253,9 +253,8 @@ On Automatic following
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 If you are following somebody else's tree, you are most likely
-using remote-tracking branches (`refs/heads/origin` in traditional
-layout, or `refs/remotes/origin/master` in the separate-remote
-layout).  You usually want the tags from the other end.
+using remote-tracking branches (eg. `refs/remotes/origin/master`).
+You usually want the tags from the other end.
 
 On the other hand, if you are fetching because you would want a
 one-shot merge from somebody else, you typically do not want to
-- 
2.10.0
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  1. doc: remove reference to the traditional layout in git-tag.txtYounes Khoudli, Oct 20, 2016
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