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authorLibravatar Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>2014-10-01 12:28:37 +0200
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2014-10-01 13:53:28 -0700
commit47ba4662bfd755829edd24428cf2e4bc492d70a6 (patch)
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parentcommit_lock_file_to(): refactor a helper out of commit_lock_file() (diff)
downloadtgif-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>
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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-lockfile.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-lockfile.txt
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+++ 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