glossary: clarify description of HEAD
HEAD on a branch does reference a commit via the branch ref it refers to. The main difference of a detached HEAD is that it _directly_ refers to a commit. Clarify this. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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working tree>> is normally derived from the state of the tree
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referred to by HEAD. HEAD is a reference to one of the
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<<def_head,heads>> in your repository, except when using a
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- <<def_detached_HEAD,detached HEAD>>, in which case it may
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- reference an arbitrary commit.
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+ <<def_detached_HEAD,detached HEAD>>, in which case it directly
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+ references an arbitrary commit.
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[[def_head_ref]]head ref::
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A synonym for <<def_head,head>>.