X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-symbolic-ref.txt;h=68ac6a65df304adf99f0af95698ffc901dda873c;hb=ce0bd64299ae148ef61a63edcac635de41254cb5;hp=a851ae24c4eb079eedec0b889baddf9911820c19;hpb=1301c6eb412e7c5511b952a12e42c70ad56f028b;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt index a851ae24..68ac6a65 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt @@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ Traditionally, `.git/HEAD` is a symlink pointing at we did `ln -sf refs/heads/newbranch .git/HEAD`, and when we want to find out which branch we are on, we did `readlink .git/HEAD`. This was fine, and internally that is what still happens by -default, but on platforms that does not have working symlinks, -or that does not have the `readlink(1)` command, this was a bit +default, but on platforms that do not have working symlinks, +or that do not have the `readlink(1)` command, this was a bit cumbersome. On some platforms, `ln -sf` does not even work as advertised (horrors).