From: Patrick Steinhardt Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 10:40:29 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Documentation: add "special refs" to the glossary X-Git-Tag: v2.44.0-rc0~43^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8df4c5d205;p=thirdparty%2Fgit.git Documentation: add "special refs" to the glossary Add the "special refs" term to our glossary. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index f7d98c11e3..d71b199955 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -638,6 +638,20 @@ The most notable example is `HEAD`. An <> used to temporarily store the contents of a <> working directory and the index for future reuse. +[[def_special_ref]]special ref:: + A ref that has different semantics than normal refs. These refs can be + accessed via normal Git commands but may not behave the same as a + normal ref in some cases. ++ +The following special refs are known to Git: + + - "`FETCH_HEAD`" is written by linkgit:git-fetch[1] or linkgit:git-pull[1]. It + may refer to multiple object IDs. Each object ID is annotated with metadata + indicating where it was fetched from and its fetch status. + + - "`MERGE_HEAD`" is written by linkgit:git-merge[1] when resolving merge + conflicts. It contains all commit IDs which are being merged. + [[def_submodule]]submodule:: A <> that holds the history of a separate project inside another repository (the latter of