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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-update-ref.txt | 6 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt index 61647ee841..2e85f7ce3e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt @@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ value is <old-oid>. You can specify 40 "0" or an empty string as <old-oid> to make sure that the ref you are creating does not exist. +The final arguments are object names; this command without any options +does not support updating a symbolic ref to point to another ref (see +linkgit:git-symbolic-ref[1]). But `git update-ref --stdin` does have +the `symref-*` commands so that regular refs and symbolic refs can be +committed in the same transaction. + If --no-deref is given, <ref> itself is overwritten, rather than the result of following the symbolic pointers. |