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Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] glossary: improve definitions of refspec and pathspec

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 15, 2013, 18:14 UTC
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Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> writes:
> fix the idendation of
> the first paragraph after the bullet list
That's indentation, I think, and is a good fix.
> and remove the one-item
> list of magic signatures with its - for the user - unnecessary
> introduction of "magic word 'top'".

But I do not know if the description of the longhand ":(top)" is unnecessary for the user. Is the equivalence between it and :/ described anywhere else in our documentation set?

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  1. 0/4 Some small fixes to glossary-content.txtThomas Ackermann, Apr 15, 2013
  2. 1/4 glossary: remove outdated/misleading/irrelevant entriesThomas Ackermann, Apr 15, 2013
  3. Junio C HamanoApr 15, 2013
  4. 2/4 glossary: improve description of SHA-1 related topicsThomas Ackermann, Apr 15, 2013
  5. 3/4 The name of the hash function is "SHA-1", not "SHA1"Thomas Ackermann, Apr 15, 2013
  6. Junio C HamanoApr 15, 2013
  7. Michael HaggertyApr 16, 2013
  8. 4/4 glossary: improve definitions of refspec and pathspecThomas Ackermann, Apr 15, 2013
  9. Junio C HamanoApr 15, 2013
  10. Aw: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] glossary: improve definitions of refspec and pathspecThomas Ackermann, Apr 15, 2013

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