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| author | Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> | 2013-04-21 01:17:05 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-04-21 18:53:59 -0700 |
| commit | dfb44106cdad20d4cf251b31cff154525a291326 (patch) | |
| tree | 4c78d430b2cdbc1e45f27e147f5e9f84dd6facc8 /Documentation | |
| parent | 845241d5446c6c4be70fcaa9f7b605e7c6760181 (diff) | |
| download | git-dfb44106cdad20d4cf251b31cff154525a291326.tar.gz git-dfb44106cdad20d4cf251b31cff154525a291326.tar.xz | |
glossary: a revision is just a commit
The current definition of 'revision' sounds like it is saying that a
revision is a tree object. In reality it is just a commit.
This should be especially useful for people used to other revision
control systems trying to see how familiar concepts translate into git
terms.
Reported-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index eb7ba84f1..521fceebe 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -430,9 +430,7 @@ should not be combined with other pathspec. <<def_merge,merge>> left behind. [[def_revision]]revision:: - A particular state of files and directories which was stored in the - <<def_object_database,object database>>. It is referenced by a - <<def_commit_object,commit object>>. + Synonym for <<def_commit,commit>> (the noun). [[def_rewind]]rewind:: To throw away part of the development, i.e. to assign the |