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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-init.txt12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-init.txt b/Documentation/git-init.txt
index 6ffe721ec..3f4e46aba 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.
+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)]::