From: J. Bruce Fields Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 00:25:35 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Documentation: clarify definition of "reachable" X-Git-Tag: v1.5.0-rc1~58 X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=59b5f52047dcc1c55122c0f3c475b4d8efa45163;p=git.git Documentation: clarify definition of "reachable" Clarify definition of "reachable" (what chain?) Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/glossary.txt b/Documentation/glossary.txt index 7c1a6592c..cd61aa260 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary.txt @@ -235,8 +235,11 @@ push:: local head, the push fails. reachable:: - An object is reachable from a ref/commit/tree/tag, if there is a - chain leading from the latter to the former. + All of the ancestors of a given commit are said to be reachable from + that commit. More generally, one object is reachable from another if + we can reach the one from the other by a chain that follows tags to + whatever they tag, commits to their parents or trees, and trees to the + trees or blobs that they contain. rebase:: To clean a branch by starting from the head of the main line of