[PATCH 8/9] Documentation: clarify "working tree" definition
From: Jonathan Nieder <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:47:29
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
It is not necessarily obvious to a git novice what it means for a filesystem tree to be equal to the HEAD. Spell it out. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <redacted> --- Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
index 572374f..43d84d1 100644
--- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
+++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt@@ -456,6 +456,6 @@ This commit is referred to as a "merge commit", or sometimes just a of 'A' is 'origin/B' sometimes we say "'A' is tracking 'origin/B'". [[def_working_tree]]working tree:: - The tree of actual checked out files. The working tree is - normally equal to the <<def_HEAD,HEAD>> plus any local changes - that you have made but not yet committed. + The tree of actual checked out files. The working tree normally + contains the contents of the <<def_HEAD,HEAD>> commit's tree, + plus any local changes that you have made but not yet committed.
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