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| author |  Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> | 2014-10-01 12:28:37 +0200 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2014-10-01 13:53:28 -0700 |
| commit | 47ba4662bfd755829edd24428cf2e4bc492d70a6 (patch) | |
| tree | 4f04a57b1fda2809d50625524fbe4907880b0854 /Documentation/technical/api-lockfile.txt | |
| parent | commit_lock_file_to(): refactor a helper out of commit_lock_file() (diff) | |
| download | tgif-47ba4662bfd755829edd24428cf2e4bc492d70a6.tar.xz | |
lockfile: rename LOCK_NODEREF to LOCK_NO_DEREF
This makes it harder to misread the name as LOCK_NODE_REF.
Suggested-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/technical/api-lockfile.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-lockfile.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-lockfile.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-lockfile.txt index aa7d822900..a3cb69b968 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-lockfile.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-lockfile.txt @@ -110,11 +110,11 @@ Flags The following flags can be passed to `hold_lock_file_for_update` or `hold_lock_file_for_append`: -LOCK_NODEREF:: +LOCK_NO_DEREF:: Usually symbolic links in the destination path are resolved and the lockfile is created by adding ".lock" to the resolved - path. If `LOCK_NODEREF` is set, then the lockfile is created + path. If `LOCK_NO_DEREF` is set, then the lockfile is created by adding ".lock" to the path argument itself. This option is used, for example, when locking a symbolic reference, which for backwards-compatibility reasons can be a symbolic link |