# [PATCH] Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt: HEAD not symlink these days 4 messages from 2009-01-06 to 2009-01-06. Participants: jidanni@jidanni.org, Miklos Vajna. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/17004 ## jidanni@jidanni.org, 2009-01-06 02:18 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt: HEAD not symlink these days Message-ID: <1231208319-12673-1-git-send-email-jidanni@jidanni.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1231208319-12673-1-git-send-email-jidanni%40jidanni.org ``` Signed-off-by: jidanni --- Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) 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, 2009-01-06 02:44 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt: HEAD not symlink these days Message-ID: <20090106024443.GC21154@genesis.frugalware.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090106024443.GC21154%40genesis.frugalware.org In-Reply-To: <1231208319-12673-1-git-send-email-jidanni@jidanni.org> ``` On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 10:18:39AM +0800, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote: > 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, 2009-01-06 02:47 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt: HEAD not symlink these days Message-ID: <87ljtpnoag.fsf@jidanni.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87ljtpnoag.fsf%40jidanni.org In-Reply-To: <20090106024443.GC21154@genesis.frugalware.org> ``` 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, 2009-01-06 08:57 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt: HEAD not symlink these days Message-ID: <20090106085727.GG21154@genesis.frugalware.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090106085727.GG21154%40genesis.frugalware.org In-Reply-To: <87ljtpnoag.fsf@jidanni.org> ``` 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. ```