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commit    cc4ec2d29ac4f3b8335d1851627a9735b81beb50
Author:   Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Date:     Mon Oct 07 07:44:17 2019 +0000

    Fix incorrect use of term HEAD for Git
    
    HEAD as used here was CVS terminology.  Now we mean master.


 src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES | 6 +++---
 src/tools/git_changelog   | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES b/src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES
index 920c6e9131d..46139877ed4 100644
--- a/src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES
+++ b/src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES
@@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ For Major Releases
 (in addition to the above)
 
 Note that once the release branch has been forked off in git,
-release-note editing happens in that branch, not in HEAD.
+release-note editing happens in that branch, not in master.
 Updates to the rest of the documentation usually need to happen
-in both HEAD and the branch.
+in both master and the branch.
 
 * Release notes
 	o use src/tools/git_changelog
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ Creating Back-Branch Release Notes
 
        diff commit-N.N.log commit-O.O.log | grep '^>'
 
-* On the most recent release branch (*not* in HEAD), edit and create SGML
+* On the most recent release branch (*not* in master), edit and create SGML
   markup for relevant changes in that branch's release-NN.sgml file.
   Minor release notes should include more small change details because
   testing is limited.
diff --git a/src/tools/git_changelog b/src/tools/git_changelog
index aaf9b7c1954..0720a58445e 100755
--- a/src/tools/git_changelog
+++ b/src/tools/git_changelog
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 # shows the last commit before that branch was made.
 #
 # Note that --master-only is an imperfect filter, since it will not detect
-# cases where a HEAD patch was back-patched awhile later or with a slightly
+# cases where a master patch was back-patched awhile later or with a slightly
 # different commit message.  To find such cases, it's a good idea to look
 # through the output of
 #   git_changelog --non-master-only --oldest-first --since='start-date'


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