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| author | Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> | 2008-06-30 01:09:04 -0500 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-07-01 17:20:15 -0700 |
| commit | b1889c36d85514e5e70462294c561a02c2edfe2b (patch) | |
| tree | 9a171d7e3fb8063c239a2c9c4dcec744a202de07 /Documentation/git-update-ref.txt | |
| parent | 46e56e81b3bc91af7071809fbda8dcdec22c4cb1 (diff) | |
| download | git-b1889c36d85514e5e70462294c561a02c2edfe2b.tar.gz | |
Documentation: be consistent about "git-" versus "git "
Since the git-* commands are not installed in $(bindir), using
"git-command <parameters>" in examples in the documentation is
not a good idea. On the other hand, it is nice to be able to
refer to each command using one hyphenated word. (There is no
escaping it, anyway: man page names cannot have spaces in them.)
This patch retains the dash in naming an operation, command,
program, process, or action. Complete command lines that can
be entered at a shell (i.e., without options omitted) are
made to use the dashless form.
The changes consist only of replacing some spaces with hyphens
and vice versa. After a "s/ /-/g", the unpatched and patched
versions are identical.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-update-ref.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-update-ref.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt index bae2c8b7ec..9639f705af 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt @@ -7,18 +7,18 @@ git-update-ref - Update the object name stored in a ref safely SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-update-ref' [-m <reason>] (-d <ref> [<oldvalue>] | [--no-deref] <ref> <newvalue> [<oldvalue>]) +'git update-ref' [-m <reason>] (-d <ref> [<oldvalue>] | [--no-deref] <ref> <newvalue> [<oldvalue>]) DESCRIPTION ----------- Given two arguments, stores the <newvalue> in the <ref>, possibly -dereferencing the symbolic refs. E.g. `git-update-ref HEAD +dereferencing the symbolic refs. E.g. `git update-ref HEAD <newvalue>` updates the current branch head to the new object. Given three arguments, stores the <newvalue> in the <ref>, possibly dereferencing the symbolic refs, after verifying that the current value of the <ref> matches <oldvalue>. -E.g. `git-update-ref refs/heads/master <newvalue> <oldvalue>` +E.g. `git update-ref refs/heads/master <newvalue> <oldvalue>` updates the master branch head to <newvalue> only if its current value is <oldvalue>. You can specify 40 "0" or an empty string as <oldvalue> to make sure that the ref you are creating does @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ the result of following the symbolic pointers. In general, using - git-update-ref HEAD "$head" + git update-ref HEAD "$head" should be a _lot_ safer than doing @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ still contains <oldvalue>. Logging Updates --------------- If config parameter "core.logAllRefUpdates" is true or the file -"$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>" exists then `git-update-ref` will append +"$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>" exists then `git update-ref` will append a line to the log file "$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>" (dereferencing all symbolic refs before creating the log name) describing the change in ref value. Log lines are formatted as: |