From 580cbb58a29ee3ebc3714f4792d34f958fd86165 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 05:20:19 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: clarify "working tree" definition It is not necessarily obvious to a git novice what it means for a filesystem tree to be equal to the HEAD. Spell it out. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index 572374f7a..43d84d15e 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -456,6 +456,6 @@ This commit is referred to as a "merge commit", or sometimes just a of 'A' is 'origin/B' sometimes we say "'A' is tracking 'origin/B'". [[def_working_tree]]working tree:: - The tree of actual checked out files. The working tree is - normally equal to the <> plus any local changes - that you have made but not yet committed. + The tree of actual checked out files. The working tree normally + contains the contents of the <> commit's tree, + plus any local changes that you have made but not yet committed. -- 2.30.2