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Re: [PATCH 4/7] Documentation: git-init: --separate-git-dir: clarify

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 23:02:08

Linus Arver [off-list ref] writes:
Signed-off-by: Linus Arver <redacted>
---
You would need to work on your justification skills ;-) in the log
message.  What does this change "clarify" and in what way?
quoted hunk
 Documentation/git-init.txt | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-init.txt b/Documentation/git-init.txt
index f21b85b..bf0a7ae 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-init.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-init.txt
@@ -57,12 +57,12 @@ DIRECTORY" section below.)
 
 --separate-git-dir=<git dir>::
 
-Instead of initializing the repository where it is supposed to be,
-place a filesytem-agnostic Git symbolic link there, pointing to the
-specified path, and initialize a Git repository at the path. The
-result is Git repository can be separated from working tree. If this
-is reinitialization, the repository will be moved to the specified
-path.
+Separate the Git repository from your working tree.  Instead of initializing the
+repository as a directory to either `$GIT_DIR` or `./.git/`, create a text file
+there containing the path to the actual repository.  This file acts as
+filesystem-agnostic Git symbolic link to the repository.
++
+If this is reinitialization, the repository will be moved to the specified path.
 
 --shared[=(false|true|umask|group|all|world|everybody|0xxx)]::
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