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diff --git a/git-rev-parse.html b/git-rev-parse.html index 37e2c9ffa..b2a4ddfad 100644 --- a/git-rev-parse.html +++ b/git-rev-parse.html @@ -1399,7 +1399,8 @@ otherwise, <em>refs/remotes/<refname>/HEAD</em> if it exists. <code>FETCH_HEAD</code> records the branch which you fetched from a remote repository
with your last <code>git fetch</code> invocation.
<code>ORIG_HEAD</code> is created by commands that move your <code>HEAD</code> in a drastic
-way, to record the position of the <code>HEAD</code> before their operation, so that
+way (<code>git am</code>, <code>git merge</code>, <code>git rebase</code>, <code>git reset</code>),
+to record the position of the <code>HEAD</code> before their operation, so that
you can easily change the tip of the branch back to the state before you ran
them.
<code>MERGE_HEAD</code> records the commit(s) which you are merging into your branch
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