local head, the push fails.
reachable::
- An object is reachable from a ref/commit/tree/tag, if there is a
- chain leading from the latter to the former.
+ All of the ancestors of a given commit are said to be reachable from
+ 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::
To clean a branch by starting from the head of the main line of
means "grab the master branch head from the $URL and store
it as my origin branch head".
And `git push $URL refs/heads/master:refs/heads/to-upstream`
- means "publish my master branch head as to-upstream master head
+ means "publish my master branch head as to-upstream branch
at $URL". See also gitlink:git-push[1]
repository::
SHA1::
Synonym for object name.
+shallow repository::
+ A shallow repository has an incomplete history some of
+ whose commits have parents cauterized away (in other
+ words, git is told to pretend that these commits do not
+ have the parents, even though they are recorded in the
+ commit object). This is sometimes useful when you are
+ interested only in the recent history of a project even
+ though the real history recorded in the upstream is
+ much larger. A shallow repository is created by giving
+ `--depth` option to gitlink:git-clone[1], and its
+ history can be later deepened with gitlink:git-fetch[1].
+
symref::
Symbolic reference: instead of containing the SHA1 id itself, it
is of the format 'ref: refs/some/thing' and when referenced, it