Re: [PATCH] doc: remove reference to the traditional layout in git-tag.txt

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 20, 2016, 15:34 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqvawnhw52.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20161020132144.6018-1-younes.khoudli@gmail.com>

Younes Khoudli <younes.khoudli@gmail.com> writes:

> This is the only place in the documentation that the traditional layout
> is mentioned, and it is confusing. Remove it.

Yeah, the information is not incorrect per-se, but certainly is out of place and immaterial to what this part of the documentation tries to teach.

Will queue; thanks.

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>
> * Documentation/git-tag.txt: Here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Younes Khoudli <younes.khoudli@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/git-tag.txt | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
> index 7ecca8e..80019c5 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
> @@ -253,9 +253,8 @@ On Automatic following
>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>  
>  If you are following somebody else's tree, you are most likely
> -using remote-tracking branches (`refs/heads/origin` in traditional
> -layout, or `refs/remotes/origin/master` in the separate-remote
> -layout).  You usually want the tags from the other end.
> +using remote-tracking branches (eg. `refs/remotes/origin/master`).
> +You usually want the tags from the other end.
>  
>  On the other hand, if you are fetching because you would want a
>  one-shot merge from somebody else, you typically do not want to