From 0b1be182cea3d6a4b5d38510a5d3eecf4b8dcc49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mattias Andrée Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 16:56:22 +0200 Subject: explicitly say that bare repos does not have index or working tree MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée --- using-git.texinfo | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'using-git.texinfo') diff --git a/using-git.texinfo b/using-git.texinfo index 177b13e..67be059 100644 --- a/using-git.texinfo +++ b/using-git.texinfo @@ -184,7 +184,10 @@ collaborators can submit and fetch commits from. This repository is customarly called `origin'. And it is a bare repository, meaning that it only hold the data in the @file{.git} directory -and cannot be used as the working directory. +and cannot be used as the working directory, it +is missing what is in Git called `index' +@footnote{Or `cache', an obsolete term} and +`working tree'. @example mkcd -p /srv/git/MY_REPOSITORY.git -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2