[PATCH] glossary: improve "branch" definition
From: Sergey Organov <hidden>
Date: 2020-11-23 20:05:59
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
The old phrasing is at least questionable, if not wrong, as there are a lot of branches out there that didn't see active development for years, yet they are still branches, ready to become active again any time. Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <redacted> --- Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
index 090c888335d3..8bf198e72771 100644
--- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
+++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Untyped <<def_object,object>>, e.g. the contents of a file. [[def_branch]]branch:: - A "branch" is an active line of development. The most recent + A "branch" is a separate line of development. The most recent <<def_commit,commit>> on a branch is referred to as the tip of that branch. The tip of the branch is referenced by a branch <<def_head,head>>, which moves forward as additional development
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