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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 |