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[PATCH 2/5] git-bisect.txt: BISECT_HEAD is not that special

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 15, 2023, 20:32 UTC
Message-ID
<20231215203245.3622299-3-gitster@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To
<20231215203245.3622299-1-gitster@pobox.com>

The description of "git bisect --no-checkout" called BISECT_HEAD a "special ref", but there is nothing special about it. It merely is yet another pseudoref.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 Documentation/git-bisect.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
index 191b4a42b6..aa02e46224 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ OPTIONS
 --no-checkout::
 +
 Do not checkout the new working tree at each iteration of the bisection
-process. Instead just update a special reference named `BISECT_HEAD` to make
+process. Instead just update the reference named `BISECT_HEAD` to make
 it point to the commit that should be tested.
 +
 This option may be useful when the test you would perform in each step
-- 
2.43.0-76-g1a87c842ec
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