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| author | Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | 2010-02-17 20:16:20 -0500 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-02-17 21:40:09 -0800 |
| commit | cc1b8d8bc6e453b96798574d67ce9590eb3e82e1 (patch) | |
| tree | be182f1f5a302a4ee660a35d1cd16599ff4441a5 /Documentation/git-show-branch.txt | |
| parent | e3ff352c73a87d533fd239c3f9d4bb978c8ce387 (diff) | |
| download | git-cc1b8d8bc6e453b96798574d67ce9590eb3e82e1.tar.gz | |
docs: don't talk about $GIT_DIR/refs/ everywhere
It is misleading to say that we pull refs from $GIT_DIR/refs/*, because we
may also consult the packed refs mechanism. These days we tend to treat
the "refs hierarchy" as more of an abstract namespace that happens to be
represented as $GIT_DIR/refs. At best, this is a minor inaccuracy, but at
worst it can confuse users who then look in $GIT_DIR/refs and find that it
is missing some of the refs they expected to see.
This patch drops most uses of "$GIT_DIR/refs/*", changing them into just
"refs/*", under the assumption that users can handle the concept of an
abstract refs namespace. There are a few things to note:
- most cases just dropped the $GIT_DIR/ portion. But for cases where
that left _just_ the word "refs", I changed it to "refs/" to help
indicate that it was a hierarchy. I didn't do the same for longer
paths (e.g., "refs/heads" remained, instead of becoming
"refs/heads/").
- in some cases, no change was made, as the text was explicitly about
unpacked refs (e.g., the discussion in git-pack-refs).
- In some cases it made sense instead to note the existence of packed
refs (e.g., in check-ref-format and rev-parse).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-show-branch.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-show-branch.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt index 734336119c..b9c4154e73 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt @@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ DESCRIPTION ----------- Shows the commit ancestry graph starting from the commits named -with <rev>s or <globs>s (or all refs under $GIT_DIR/refs/heads -and/or $GIT_DIR/refs/tags) semi-visually. +with <rev>s or <globs>s (or all refs under refs/heads +and/or refs/tags) semi-visually. It cannot show more than 29 branches and commits at a time. @@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ OPTIONS <glob>:: A glob pattern that matches branch or tag names under - $GIT_DIR/refs. For example, if you have many topic - branches under $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/topic, giving + refs/. For example, if you have many topic + branches under refs/heads/topic, giving `topic/*` would show all of them. -r:: @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ EXAMPLE ------- If you keep your primary branches immediately under -`$GIT_DIR/refs/heads`, and topic branches in subdirectories of +`refs/heads`, and topic branches in subdirectories of it, having the following in the configuration file may help: ------------ |