From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 21:30:10 GMT
Subject: Re: Resetting working files
Message-ID: <81b0412b0905311430v7874013cm6db84bd12d749134@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090531173932.GA13856@vidovic>

2009/5/31 Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr>:
> The 31/05/09, Aaron Gray wrote:
>>
>> I think index is HEAD or a revision hash. Am I correct ?
>
> HEAD is a reference to a branch name:

Not really. Try "git checkout HEAD^" and run cat .git/HEAD

It is more a pointer to a commit. The pointers to a commit
in git are allowed to be indirect by referencing other pointers.