From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 22:12:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] Documentation: git-init: --separate-git-dir: clarify
Message-ID: <xmqqiom6oabe.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1407002817-29221-5-git-send-email-linusarver@gmail.com>

Linus Arver <linusarver@gmail.com> writes:

> Signed-off-by: Linus Arver <linusarver@gmail.com>
> ---

You would need to work on your justification skills ;-) in the log
message.  What does this change "clarify" and in what way?

>  Documentation/git-init.txt | 12 ++++++------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-init.txt b/Documentation/git-init.txt
> index f21b85b..bf0a7ae 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-init.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-init.txt
> @@ -57,12 +57,12 @@ DIRECTORY" section below.)
>  
>  --separate-git-dir=<git dir>::
>  
> -Instead of initializing the repository where it is supposed to be,
> -place a filesytem-agnostic Git symbolic link there, pointing to the
> -specified path, and initialize a Git repository at the path. The
> -result is Git repository can be separated from working tree. If this
> -is reinitialization, the repository will be moved to the specified
> -path.
> +Separate the Git repository from your working tree.  Instead of initializing the
> +repository as a directory to either `$GIT_DIR` or `./.git/`, create a text file
> +there containing the path to the actual repository.  This file acts as
> +filesystem-agnostic Git symbolic link to the repository.
> ++
> +If this is reinitialization, the repository will be moved to the specified path.
>  
>  --shared[=(false|true|umask|group|all|world|everybody|0xxx)]::