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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-08-06 13:36:47 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-08-06 14:04:16 -0700 |
| commit | 831e61f80fab2d3f9ba1773e657803dcf8b16432 (patch) | |
| tree | 6ced3d26ab664b5ab3885eaef205e8e0d229c5bf /Documentation/git-replace.txt | |
| parent | d0f1ea6003d97e63110fa7d50bb07f546a909b6e (diff) | |
| download | git-831e61f80fab2d3f9ba1773e657803dcf8b16432.tar.gz | |
Documentation: do not mention .git/refs/* directories
It is an implementation detail that a new tag is created by adding a
file in the .git/refs/tags directory. The only thing the user needs
to know is that a "git tag" creates a ref in the refs/tags namespace,
and without "-f", it does not overwrite an existing tag.
Inspired by a report from 乙酸鋰 <ch3cooli@gmail.com>; I think I
caught all the existing mention in Documentation/ directory in the
tip of 1.7.9.X maintenance track, but we may have added new ones
since then.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-replace.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-replace.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-replace.txt b/Documentation/git-replace.txt index 17df525275..51131d0858 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-replace.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-replace.txt @@ -14,14 +14,13 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Adds a 'replace' reference in `.git/refs/replace/` +Adds a 'replace' reference in `refs/replace/` namespace. The name of the 'replace' reference is the SHA1 of the object that is replaced. The content of the 'replace' reference is the SHA1 of the replacement object. -Unless `-f` is given, the 'replace' reference must not yet exist in -`.git/refs/replace/` directory. +Unless `-f` is given, the 'replace' reference must not yet exist. Replacement references will be used by default by all git commands except those doing reachability traversal (prune, pack transfer and |