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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-04-21 18:40:15 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-04-21 18:40:15 -0700 |
| commit | ad77690fe400d91d3da97e16c07f1a8591b19b99 (patch) | |
| tree | 6b6264e1b76b1afc438856473ca45ad052a99b0c /Documentation/git.txt | |
| parent | c6c4d616739b531b5689b78fbcb2c89d14e70a4f (diff) | |
| parent | 57148ebb30fd7ed72acf7b3fc6f59d7cf2d94643 (diff) | |
| download | git-ad77690fe400d91d3da97e16c07f1a8591b19b99.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'ta/glossary'
* ta/glossary:
glossary: improve definitions of refspec and pathspec
The name of the hash function is "SHA-1", not "SHA1"
glossary: improve description of SHA-1 related topics
glossary: remove outdated/misleading/irrelevant entries
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 6a875f2ade..807a13c806 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ where: <old|new>-file:: are files GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF can use to read the contents of <old|new>, - <old|new>-hex:: are the 40-hexdigit SHA1 hashes, + <old|new>-hex:: are the 40-hexdigit SHA-1 hashes, <old|new>-mode:: are the octal representation of the file modes. + The file parameters can point at the user's working file @@ -864,7 +864,7 @@ The commit, equivalent to what other systems call a "changeset" or represents an immediately preceding step. Commits with more than one parent represent merges of independent lines of development. -All objects are named by the SHA1 hash of their contents, normally +All objects are named by the SHA-1 hash of their contents, normally written as a string of 40 hex digits. Such names are globally unique. The entire history leading up to a commit can be vouched for by signing just that commit. A fourth object type, the tag, is provided for this @@ -874,9 +874,9 @@ When first created, objects are stored in individual files, but for efficiency may later be compressed together into "pack files". Named pointers called refs mark interesting points in history. A ref -may contain the SHA1 name of an object or the name of another ref. Refs -with names beginning `ref/head/` contain the SHA1 name of the most -recent commit (or "head") of a branch under development. SHA1 names of +may contain the SHA-1 name of an object or the name of another ref. Refs +with names beginning `ref/head/` contain the SHA-1 name of the most +recent commit (or "head") of a branch under development. SHA-1 names of tags of interest are stored under `ref/tags/`. A special ref named `HEAD` contains the name of the currently checked-out branch. |