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author | Max Horn <max@quendi.de> | 2012-07-06 02:01:29 +0200 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-07-05 23:59:30 -0700 |
commit | 89ce391b8edae97bbfd0fdb33b4c252b6fd0dc53 (patch) | |
tree | 11b5dbb21d0bfbe9a5459fee3ba5376d9dcaf250 /Documentation | |
parent | Merge branch 'maint' of git://github.com/git-l10n/git-po into maint (diff) | |
download | tgif-89ce391b8edae97bbfd0fdb33b4c252b6fd0dc53.tar.xz |
Make <refname> documentation more consistent.
Formerly, the documentation for <refname> would occasionally say
<name> instead of <refname>. Now it uniformly uses <refname>.
Signed-off-by: Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/revisions.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index 1725661837..f4f6f281a0 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -24,22 +24,22 @@ blobs contained in a commit. object referenced by 'refs/heads/master'. If you happen to have both 'heads/master' and 'tags/master', you can explicitly say 'heads/master' to tell git which one you mean. - When ambiguous, a '<name>' is disambiguated by taking the + When ambiguous, a '<refname>' is disambiguated by taking the first match in the following rules: - . If '$GIT_DIR/<name>' exists, that is what you mean (this is usually + . If '$GIT_DIR/<refname>' exists, that is what you mean (this is usually useful only for 'HEAD', 'FETCH_HEAD', 'ORIG_HEAD', 'MERGE_HEAD' and 'CHERRY_PICK_HEAD'); - . otherwise, 'refs/<name>' if it exists; + . otherwise, 'refs/<refname>' if it exists; . otherwise, 'refs/tags/<refname>' if it exists; - . otherwise, 'refs/heads/<name>' if it exists; + . otherwise, 'refs/heads/<refname>' if it exists; - . otherwise, 'refs/remotes/<name>' if it exists; + . otherwise, 'refs/remotes/<refname>' if it exists; - . otherwise, 'refs/remotes/<name>/HEAD' if it exists. + . otherwise, 'refs/remotes/<refname>/HEAD' if it exists. + 'HEAD' names the commit on which you based the changes in the working tree. 'FETCH_HEAD' records the branch which you fetched from a remote repository |