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Documentation: clarify definition of "reachable"
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Clarify definition of "reachable" (what chain?)

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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J. Bruce Fields authored and Junio C Hamano committed Jan 8, 2007
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Expand Up @@ -235,8 +235,11 @@ push::
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
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