From 68db31cc289c686c4b4454dfbb121aff59a6c602 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 12:33:20 +0200
Subject: git-update-ref: add --no-deref option for overwriting/detaching ref

git-checkout is also adapted to make use of this new option
instead of the handcrafted command sequence.

Signed-off-by: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
---
 Documentation/git-update-ref.txt | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'Documentation')

diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt
index 9424feab3..f22261659 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-update-ref - Update the object name stored in a ref safely
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-update-ref' [-m <reason>] (-d <ref> <oldvalue> | <ref> <newvalue> [<oldvalue>])
+'git-update-ref' [-m <reason>] (-d <ref> <oldvalue> | [--no-deref] <ref> <newvalue> [<oldvalue>])
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ them and update them as a regular file (i.e. it will allow the
 filesystem to follow them, but will overwrite such a symlink to
 somewhere else with a regular filename).
 
+If --no-deref is given, <ref> itself is overwritten, rather than
+the result of following the symbolic pointers.
+
 In general, using
 
 	git-update-ref HEAD "$head"
-- 
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