From e6a268c534df61f8ab96ce253e852f9109decb8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 11:23:56 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] glossary: add "remote", "submodule", "superproject" Noticed-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> --- Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index bf383c2e8c..ab18f4baca 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -469,6 +469,11 @@ The most notable example is `HEAD`. <<def_push,push>> to describe the mapping between remote <<def_ref,ref>> and local ref. +[[def_remote]]remote repository:: + A <<def_repository,repository>> which is used to track the same + project but resides somewhere else. To communicate with remotes, + see <<def_fetch,fetch>> or <<def_push,push>>. + [[def_remote_tracking_branch]]remote-tracking branch:: A <<def_ref,ref>> that is used to follow changes from another <<def_repository,repository>>. It typically looks like @@ -515,6 +520,17 @@ The most notable example is `HEAD`. is created by giving the `--depth` option to linkgit:git-clone[1], and its history can be later deepened with linkgit:git-fetch[1]. +[[def_submodule]]submodule:: + A <<def_repository,repository>> that holds the history of a + separate project inside another repository (the latter of + which is called <<def_superproject, superproject>>). + +[[def_superproject]]superproject:: + A <<def_repository,repository>> that references repositories + of other projects in its working tree as <<def_submodule,submodules>>. + The superproject knows about the names of (but does not hold + copies of) commit objects of the contained submodules. + [[def_symref]]symref:: Symbolic reference: instead of containing the <<def_SHA1,SHA-1>> id itself, it is of the format 'ref: refs/some/thing' and when