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diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index 0d2aa48c63..8d38ae6010 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -287,6 +287,15 @@ This commit is referred to as a "merge commit", or sometimes just a origin/name-of-upstream-branch, which you can see using `git branch -r`. +[[def_overlay]]overlay:: + Only update and add files to the working directory, but don't + delete them, similar to how 'cp -R' would update the contents + in the destination directory. This is the default mode in a + <<def_checkout,checkout>> when checking out files from the + <<def_index,index>> or a <<def_tree-ish,tree-ish>>. In + contrast, no-overlay mode also deletes tracked files not + present in the source, similar to 'rsync --delete'. + [[def_pack]]pack:: A set of objects which have been compressed into one file (to save space or to transmit them efficiently). @@ -404,6 +413,8 @@ these forms: - "`!ATTR`" requires that the attribute `ATTR` be unspecified. + +Note that when matching against a tree object, attributes are still +obtained from working tree, not from the given tree object. exclude;; After a path matches any non-exclude pathspec, it will be run |