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Documentation: clarify "working tree" definition

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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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Jonathan Nieder 2009-10-09 05:20:19 -05:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -456,6 +456,6 @@ This commit is referred to as a "merge commit", or sometimes just a
of 'A' is 'origin/B' sometimes we say "'A' is tracking 'origin/B'".
[[def_working_tree]]working tree::
The tree of actual checked out files. The working tree is
normally equal to the <<def_HEAD,HEAD>> plus any local changes
that you have made but not yet committed.
The tree of actual checked out files. The working tree normally
contains the contents of the <<def_HEAD,HEAD>> commit's tree,
plus any local changes that you have made but not yet committed.