Re: [PATCH] Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt: HEAD not symlink these days

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 10:18:39AM +0800, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:

 Branches in git are really nothing more than pointers into the git
 object database from within the `.git/refs/` subdirectory, and as we
-already discussed, the `HEAD` branch is nothing but a symlink to one of
+already discussed, the `HEAD` branch is nothing but a pointer to one of
 these object pointers.

The currect term for HEAD is a 'symref', see the glossary. ;-)