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Documentation: clarify definition of "reachable"

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Clarify definition of "reachable" (what chain?)

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-07 19:25:35 -05:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -235,8 +235,11 @@ push::
local head, the push fails. local head, the push fails.
reachable:: reachable::
An object is reachable from a ref/commit/tree/tag, if there is a All of the ancestors of a given commit are said to be reachable from
chain leading from the latter to the former. that commit. More generally, one object is reachable from another if
we can reach the one from the other by a chain that follows tags to
whatever they tag, commits to their parents or trees, and trees to the
trees or blobs that they contain.
rebase:: rebase::
To clean a branch by starting from the head of the main line of To clean a branch by starting from the head of the main line of