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@@ -396,8 +396,8 @@ git-commit-tree will return the name of the object that represents
that commit, and you should save it away for later use. Normally,
you'd commit a new `HEAD` state, and while git doesn't care where you
save the note about that state, in practice we tend to just write the
-result to the file `.git/HEAD`, so that we can always see what the
-last committed state was.
+result to the file pointed at by `.git/HEAD`, so that we can always see
+what the last committed state was.
Here is an ASCII art by Jon Loeliger that illustrates how
various pieces fit together.
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ tend to be small and fairly self-explanatory. In particular, if you
follow the convention of having the top commit name in `.git/HEAD`,
you can do
- git-cat-file commit $(cat .git/HEAD)
+ git-cat-file commit HEAD
to see what the top commit was.