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diff --git a/Documentation/glossary.txt b/Documentation/glossary.txt index 14449ca8b..bc917bbac 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary.txt @@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ object name:: character hexadecimal encoding of the hash of the object (possibly followed by a white space). -object type: +object type:: One of the identifiers "commit","tree","tag" and "blob" describing the type of an object. @@ -188,11 +188,12 @@ octopus:: predator. origin:: - The default upstream tracking branch. Most projects have at + The default upstream repository. Most projects have at least one upstream project which they track. By default 'origin' is used for that purpose. New upstream updates - will be fetched into this branch; you should never commit - to it yourself. + will be fetched into remote tracking branches named + origin/name-of-upstream-branch, which you can see using + "git branch -r". pack:: A set of objects which have been compressed into one file (to save @@ -234,8 +235,11 @@ push:: local head, the push fails. reachable:: - An object is reachable from a ref/commit/tree/tag, if there is a - chain leading from the latter to the former. + All of the ancestors of a given commit are said to be reachable from + that commit. More generally, one object is reachable from another if + we can reach the one from the other by a chain that follows tags to + whatever they tag, commits to their parents or trees, and trees to the + trees or blobs that they contain. rebase:: To clean a branch by starting from the head of the main line of @@ -255,7 +259,7 @@ refspec:: means "grab the master branch head from the $URL and store it as my origin branch head". And `git push $URL refs/heads/master:refs/heads/to-upstream` - means "publish my master branch head as to-upstream master head + means "publish my master branch head as to-upstream branch at $URL". See also gitlink:git-push[1] repository:: @@ -282,6 +286,13 @@ SCM:: SHA1:: Synonym for object name. +symref:: + Symbolic reference: instead of containing the SHA1 id itself, it + is of the format 'ref: refs/some/thing' and when referenced, it + recursively dereferences to this reference. 'HEAD' is a prime + example of a symref. Symbolic references are manipulated with + the gitlink:git-symbolic-ref[1] command. + topic branch:: A regular git branch that is used by a developer to identify a conceptual line of development. Since branches @@ -324,7 +335,7 @@ tag:: A tag is most typically used to mark a particular point in the commit ancestry chain. -unmerged index: +unmerged index:: An index which contains unmerged index entries. working tree:: |