Merge commit 'b319ef7' into jc/maint-fix-test-perm

* commit 'b319ef7': (8132 commits)
  Add a small patch-mode testing library
  git-apply--interactive: Refactor patch mode code
  t8005: Nobody writes Russian in shift_jis
  Fix severe breakage in "git-apply --whitespace=fix"
  Update release notes for 1.6.4
  After renaming a section, print any trailing variable definitions
  Make section_name_match start on '[', and return the length on success
  send-email: detect cycles in alias expansion
  Show the presence of untracked files in the bash prompt.
  SunOS grep does not understand -C<n> nor -e
  Fix export_marks() error handling.
  git repack: keep commits hidden by a graft
  Add a test showing that 'git repack' throws away grafted-away parents
  git branch: clean up detached branch handling
  git branch: avoid unnecessary object lookups
  git branch: fix performance problem
  git svn: fix shallow clone when upstream revision is too new
  do_one_ref(): null_sha1 check is not about broken ref
  configure.ac: properly unset NEEDS_SSL_WITH_CRYPTO when sha1 func is missing
  janitor: useless checks before free
  ...

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt
index 9424feab32..9639f705af 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt
@@ -7,18 +7,18 @@ git-update-ref - Update the object name stored in a ref safely
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-update-ref' [-m <reason>] (-d <ref> <oldvalue> | <ref> <newvalue> [<oldvalue>])
+'git update-ref' [-m <reason>] (-d <ref> [<oldvalue>] | [--no-deref] <ref> <newvalue> [<oldvalue>])
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 Given two arguments, stores the <newvalue> in the <ref>, possibly
-dereferencing the symbolic refs.  E.g. `git-update-ref HEAD
+dereferencing the symbolic refs.  E.g. `git update-ref HEAD
 <newvalue>` updates the current branch head to the new object.
 
 Given three arguments, stores the <newvalue> in the <ref>,
 possibly dereferencing the symbolic refs, after verifying that
 the current value of the <ref> matches <oldvalue>.
-E.g. `git-update-ref refs/heads/master <newvalue> <oldvalue>`
+E.g. `git update-ref refs/heads/master <newvalue> <oldvalue>`
 updates the master branch head to <newvalue> only if its current
 value is <oldvalue>.  You can specify 40 "0" or an empty string
 as <oldvalue> to make sure that the ref you are creating does
@@ -36,9 +36,12 @@ them and update them as a regular file (i.e. it will allow the
 filesystem to follow them, but will overwrite such a symlink to
 somewhere else with a regular filename).
 
+If --no-deref is given, <ref> itself is overwritten, rather than
+the result of following the symbolic pointers.
+
 In general, using
 
-	git-update-ref HEAD "$head"
+	git update-ref HEAD "$head"
 
 should be a _lot_ safer than doing
 
@@ -58,7 +61,7 @@ still contains <oldvalue>.
 Logging Updates
 ---------------
 If config parameter "core.logAllRefUpdates" is true or the file
-"$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>" exists then `git-update-ref` will append
+"$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>" exists then `git update-ref` will append
 a line to the log file "$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>" (dereferencing all
 symbolic refs before creating the log name) describing the change
 in ref value.  Log lines are formatted as:
@@ -87,4 +90,4 @@ Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>.
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite