diff options
| author |  Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2005-11-15 01:31:04 -0800 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2005-11-15 01:31:04 -0800 |
| commit | cd0a781c386b197e63a30104bead39420eada7ca (patch) | |
| tree | 8ea8ba4b812ca2bc384ccc117da7fd4f4516f000 /Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt | |
| parent | Fix bunch of fd leaks in http-fetch (diff) | |
| download | tgif-cd0a781c386b197e63a30104bead39420eada7ca.tar.xz | |
Documentation: do not blindly run 'cat' .git/HEAD, or echo into it.
Many places in the documentation we still talked about reading
what commit is recorded in .git/HEAD or writing the new head
information into it, both assuming .git/HEAD is a symlink. That
is not necessarily so.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt index a851ae24c4..68ac6a65df 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt @@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ Traditionally, `.git/HEAD` is a symlink pointing at we did `ln -sf refs/heads/newbranch .git/HEAD`, and when we want to find out which branch we are on, we did `readlink .git/HEAD`. This was fine, and internally that is what still happens by -default, but on platforms that does not have working symlinks, -or that does not have the `readlink(1)` command, this was a bit +default, but on platforms that do not have working symlinks, +or that do not have the `readlink(1)` command, this was a bit cumbersome. On some platforms, `ln -sf` does not even work as advertised (horrors). |