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authorJosh Bleecher Snyder <josharian@gmail.com>2020-03-07 16:04:04 -0800
committerJosh Bleecher Snyder <josharian@gmail.com>2020-03-07 16:05:25 -0800
commita5886e9e0e5bcc2b3b42082fa3f443189d3974a3 (patch)
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repository: improve commondir docs
Fixes #5428
-rw-r--r--include/git2/repository.h9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/git2/repository.h b/include/git2/repository.h
index 45d7962b2..9ddcd3404 100644
--- a/include/git2/repository.h
+++ b/include/git2/repository.h
@@ -481,10 +481,11 @@ GIT_EXTERN(const char *) git_repository_path(const git_repository *repo);
GIT_EXTERN(const char *) git_repository_workdir(const git_repository *repo);
/**
- * Get the path of the shared common directory for this repository
- *
- * If the repository is bare is not a worktree, the git directory
- * path is returned.
+ * Get the path of the shared common directory for this repository.
+ *
+ * If the repository is bare, it is the root directory for the repository.
+ * If the repository is a worktree, it is the parent repo's gitdir.
+ * Otherwise, it is the gitdir.
*
* @param repo A repository object
* @return the path to the common dir