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Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt: HEAD not symlink these days

## tl;dr

4 messages between Jan 6, 2009 and Jan 6, 2009. Diffs are folded; open one to read it.

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jidanni@jidanni.org· Jan 6, 2009, 02:18 UTC · lore

Signed-off-by: jidanni <jidanni@jidanni.org>
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 Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

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diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
index e4dd551..05328cf 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
@@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ Creating a new branch
 
 Branches in git are really nothing more than pointers into the git
 object database from within the `.git/refs/` subdirectory, and as we
-already discussed, the `HEAD` branch is nothing but a symlink to one of
+already discussed, the `HEAD` branch is nothing but a pointer to one of
 these object pointers.
 
 You can at any time create a new branch by just picking an arbitrary

-- 
1.6.0.6

Miklos Vajna· Jan 6, 2009, 02:44 UTC · re: jidanni@jidanni.org · lore

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt: HEAD not symlink these days

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 10:18:39AM +0800, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:

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>  Branches in git are really nothing more than pointers into the git
>  object database from within the `.git/refs/` subdirectory, and as we
> -already discussed, the `HEAD` branch is nothing but a symlink to one of
> +already discussed, the `HEAD` branch is nothing but a pointer to one of
>  these object pointers.

The currect term for HEAD is a 'symref', see the glossary. ;-)

jidanni@jidanni.org· Jan 6, 2009, 02:47 UTC · re: Miklos Vajna · lore

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt: HEAD not symlink these days

MV> The currect term for HEAD is a 'symref', see the glossary. ;-)

OK please change it for me, as today is my junior patching practice day, and a patch to a patch is way over my head.

Miklos Vajna· Jan 6, 2009, 08:57 UTC · re: jidanni@jidanni.org · lore

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt: HEAD not symlink these days

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 10:47:35AM +0800, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:

> OK please change it for me, as today is my junior patching practice
> day, and a patch to a patch is way over my head.

I can, but in the longer term, I think it's better if you learn to use git rebase -i / git commit --amend. You can do it tomorrow as well.