Re: [PATCH 5/5] glossary: clarify description of HEAD

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On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 09:52:38AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> HEAD on a branch does reference a commit via the branch ref it refers to.
> The main difference of a detached HEAD is that it _directly_ refers to
> a commit.  Clarify this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/glossary-content.txt |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
> index dd690bd..f79da21 100644
> --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
> @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ to point at the new commit.
>  	working tree>> is normally derived from the state of the tree
>  	referred to by HEAD.  HEAD is a reference to one of the
>  	<<def_head,heads>> in your repository, except when using a
> -	<<def_detached_HEAD,detached HEAD>>, in which case it may
> +	<<def_detached_HEAD,detached HEAD>>, in which case it may directly

Why "may"? As I understand it, in detached HEAD, it /does/ point
directly to a commit

>  	reference an arbitrary commit.
>  
>  [[def_head_ref]]head ref::

Cheers,
   cmn
-- 
Carlos Martín Nieto | http://cmartin.tk

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