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| author | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> | 2007-01-08 03:25:35 +0300 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2007-01-08 08:32:49 +0300 |
| commit | 59b5f52047dcc1c55122c0f3c475b4d8efa45163 (patch) | |
| tree | 2d858315bb2aeb661507a6eb08ea122d3fb5eab7 | |
| parent | 692167774a4fc55cd7ffd91117b2c0ac44e064d9 (diff) | |
Documentation: clarify definition of "reachable"
Clarify definition of "reachable" (what chain?)
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/glossary.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary.txt b/Documentation/glossary.txt index 7c1a6592c1..cd61aa2606 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary.txt @@ -235,8 +235,11 @@ push:: local head, the push fails. reachable:: - An object is reachable from a ref/commit/tree/tag, if there is a - chain leading from the latter to the former. + All of the ancestors of a given commit are said to be reachable from + that commit. More generally, one object is reachable from another if + we can reach the one from the other by a chain that follows tags to + whatever they tag, commits to their parents or trees, and trees to the + trees or blobs that they contain. rebase:: To clean a branch by starting from the head of the main line of |