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@@ -396,8 +396,8 @@ git-commit-tree will return the name of the object that represents that commit, and you should save it away for later use. Normally, you'd commit a new `HEAD` state, and while git doesn't care where you save the note about that state, in practice we tend to just write the -result to the file `.git/HEAD`, so that we can always see what the -last committed state was. +result to the file pointed at by `.git/HEAD`, so that we can always see +what the last committed state was. Here is an ASCII art by Jon Loeliger that illustrates how various pieces fit together. @@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ tend to be small and fairly self-explanatory. In particular, if you follow the convention of having the top commit name in `.git/HEAD`, you can do - git-cat-file commit $(cat .git/HEAD) + git-cat-file commit HEAD to see what the top commit was. |