A peek at where the refs are kept might help understanding, even if, as the DESCRIPTION section suggests, direct access is not part of the public API. Balance that out with a pointer to update-ref. Suggested-by: Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-show-ref.txt | 7 ++++++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt index 3f9d9c6..3fe961d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt @@ -163,9 +163,15 @@ flag, so you can do to get a listing of all tags together with what they dereference. +FILES +----- +`.git/refs/*`, `.git/packed-refs` + SEE ALSO -------- -linkgit:git-ls-remote[1] +linkgit:git-ls-remote[1], +linkgit:git-update-ref[1], +linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5] AUTHORS ------- -- 1.7.2.1.544.ga752d.dirty -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html