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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2024-02-08 16:22:08 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2024-02-08 16:22:08 -0800 |
| commit | 79f79e58a4242ea2b492734a0c4984ded58907cc (patch) | |
| tree | b0801a94757073e902a50b6cc32ac380fefb2bd8 /Documentation/git.txt | |
| parent | 7b95c644083e892df9c687b1ef4c4be01c55a18f (diff) | |
| parent | bc62d27d5c2379505436cb8968c153c8b3a25d39 (diff) | |
| download | git-79f79e58a4242ea2b492734a0c4984ded58907cc.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'jc/doc-most-refs-are-not-that-special' into maint-2.43
Doc updates.
* jc/doc-most-refs-are-not-that-special:
docs: MERGE_AUTOSTASH is not that special
docs: AUTO_MERGE is not that special
refs.h: HEAD is not that special
git-bisect.txt: BISECT_HEAD is not that special
git.txt: HEAD is not that special
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index caa6cbee7e..962887f190 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -1024,10 +1024,11 @@ When first created, objects are stored in individual files, but for efficiency may later be compressed together into "pack files". Named pointers called refs mark interesting points in history. A ref -may contain the SHA-1 name of an object or the name of another ref. Refs -with names beginning `ref/head/` contain the SHA-1 name of the most +may contain the SHA-1 name of an object or the name of another ref (the +latter is called a "symbolic ref"). +Refs with names beginning `refs/head/` contain the SHA-1 name of the most recent commit (or "head") of a branch under development. SHA-1 names of -tags of interest are stored under `ref/tags/`. A special ref named +tags of interest are stored under `refs/tags/`. A symbolic ref named `HEAD` contains the name of the currently checked-out branch. The index file is initialized with a list of all paths and, for each |