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author | Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> | 2009-10-09 14:20:19 +0400 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-10-10 01:54:55 +0400 |
commit | 580cbb58a29ee3ebc3714f4792d34f958fd86165 (patch) | |
tree | 81de2d45438b182e9a83b17d9ceba1f2898828cf | |
parent | bb35f35e67ed2fdfce1892cc9d55827b90fcb775 (diff) |
Documentation: clarify "working tree" definition
It is not necessarily obvious to a git novice what it means for a
filesystem tree to be equal to the HEAD. Spell it out.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index 572374f7a6..43d84d15e9 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -456,6 +456,6 @@ This commit is referred to as a "merge commit", or sometimes just a of 'A' is 'origin/B' sometimes we say "'A' is tracking 'origin/B'". [[def_working_tree]]working tree:: - The tree of actual checked out files. The working tree is - normally equal to the <<def_HEAD,HEAD>> plus any local changes - that you have made but not yet committed. + The tree of actual checked out files. The working tree normally + contains the contents of the <<def_HEAD,HEAD>> commit's tree, + plus any local changes that you have made but not yet committed. |