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Items not covered by repository-layout.txt

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 10, 2006, 20:46 UTC
Message-ID
<e8ue98$o7t$1@sea.gmane.org>

I have noticed few files in .git/ directory which currently are not covered (and neither is their format) by Documentation/repository-layout.txt

* COMMIT_EDITMSG (temporary file, when I decided during writing commit
  message that I should change something before commit)
* FETCH_HEAD (format?)
* HEAD, ORIG_HEAD and probably some other *_HEAD
* .tmp-vtag (I'm not sure what have left that, probably git-verify-tag
  broken due to lack of signing PGP keys)
* description file

I know they are fairly obvious, but having everything that one could fing in his/her git-core managed .git repository would be nice... 

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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