Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.7.8-163-g9859a

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diff --git a/git-symbolic-ref.html b/git-symbolic-ref.html
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@@ -632,12 +632,9 @@ a regular file whose contents is <tt>ref: refs/heads/master</tt>.</p></div>
 <tt>refs/heads/master</tt>.  When we wanted to switch to another branch,

 we did <tt>ln -sf refs/heads/newbranch .git/HEAD</tt>, and when we wanted

 to find out which branch we are on, we did <tt>readlink .git/HEAD</tt>.

-This was fine, and internally that is what still happens by

-default, but on platforms that do not have working symlinks,

-or that do not have the <tt>readlink(1)</tt> command, this was a bit

-cumbersome.  On some platforms, <tt>ln -sf</tt> does not even work as

-advertised (horrors).  Therefore symbolic links are now deprecated

-and symbolic refs are used by default.</p></div>

+But symbolic links are not entirely portable, so they are now

+deprecated and symbolic refs (as described above) are used by

+default.</p></div>

 <div class="paragraph"><p><em>git symbolic-ref</em> will exit with status 0 if the contents of the

 symbolic ref were printed correctly, with status 1 if the requested

 name is not a symbolic ref, or 128 if another error occurs.</p></div>

@@ -650,7 +647,7 @@ name is not a symbolic ref, or 128 if another error occurs.</p></div>
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-Last updated 2011-11-15 13:45:02 PDT

+Last updated 2011-12-09 15:40:58 PDT

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