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diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt index 9424feab32..f222616591 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-update-ref - Update the object name stored in a ref safely SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-update-ref' [-m <reason>] (-d <ref> <oldvalue> | <ref> <newvalue> [<oldvalue>]) +'git-update-ref' [-m <reason>] (-d <ref> <oldvalue> | [--no-deref] <ref> <newvalue> [<oldvalue>]) DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ them and update them as a regular file (i.e. it will allow the filesystem to follow them, but will overwrite such a symlink to somewhere else with a regular filename). +If --no-deref is given, <ref> itself is overwritten, rather than +the result of following the symbolic pointers. + In general, using git-update-ref HEAD "$head" |