Documentation: clarify "working tree" definition
It is not necessarily obvious to a git novice what it means for a filesystem tree to be equal to the HEAD. Spell it out. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -456,6 +456,6 @@ This commit is referred to as a "merge commit", or sometimes just a
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of 'A' is 'origin/B' sometimes we say "'A' is tracking 'origin/B'".
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[[def_working_tree]]working tree::
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- The tree of actual checked out files. The working tree is
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- normally equal to the <<def_HEAD,HEAD>> plus any local changes
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- that you have made but not yet committed.
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+ The tree of actual checked out files. The working tree normally
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+ contains the contents of the <<def_HEAD,HEAD>> commit's tree,
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+ plus any local changes that you have made but not yet committed.