From c6eec9cb3677fe91c887181c0a184cb30627fca2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philippe Blain Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:15:20 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] revisions.txt: be explicit about commands writing 'ORIG_HEAD' When mentioning 'ORIG_HEAD', be explicit about which command write that pseudo-ref, namely 'git am', 'git merge', 'git rebase' and 'git reset'. Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain Acked-by: Phillip Wood Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/revisions.txt | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index 0d2e55d781..9aa58052bc 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ characters and to avoid word splitting. `FETCH_HEAD` records the branch which you fetched from a remote repository with your last `git fetch` invocation. `ORIG_HEAD` is created by commands that move your `HEAD` in a drastic -way, to record the position of the `HEAD` before their operation, so that +way (`git am`, `git merge`, `git rebase`, `git reset`), +to record the position of the `HEAD` before their operation, so that you can easily change the tip of the branch back to the state before you ran them. `MERGE_HEAD` records the commit(s) which you are merging into your branch