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authorJeff King <peff@peff.net>2010-02-17 20:16:20 -0500
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-02-17 21:40:09 -0800
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docs: don't talk about $GIT_DIR/refs/ everywhere
It is misleading to say that we pull refs from $GIT_DIR/refs/*, because we may also consult the packed refs mechanism. These days we tend to treat the "refs hierarchy" as more of an abstract namespace that happens to be represented as $GIT_DIR/refs. At best, this is a minor inaccuracy, but at worst it can confuse users who then look in $GIT_DIR/refs and find that it is missing some of the refs they expected to see. This patch drops most uses of "$GIT_DIR/refs/*", changing them into just "refs/*", under the assumption that users can handle the concept of an abstract refs namespace. There are a few things to note: - most cases just dropped the $GIT_DIR/ portion. But for cases where that left _just_ the word "refs", I changed it to "refs/" to help indicate that it was a hierarchy. I didn't do the same for longer paths (e.g., "refs/heads" remained, instead of becoming "refs/heads/"). - in some cases, no change was made, as the text was explicitly about unpacked refs (e.g., the discussion in git-pack-refs). - In some cases it made sense instead to note the existence of packed refs (e.g., in check-ref-format and rev-parse). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
index ffd5025f7b..61fd7d0998 100644
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+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ base-name::
--all::
This implies `--revs`. In addition to the list of
revision arguments read from the standard input, pretend
- as if all refs under `$GIT_DIR/refs` are specified to be
+ as if all refs under `refs/` are specified to be
included.
--include-tag::