Documentation/technical/reftable: document rename in reflog.
Change-Id: I0fe7d28a772b1ee9eefd9a38bff5e08a8559988f
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/reftable.md b/Documentation/technical/reftable.md
index 47c61a3..5140e62 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/reftable.md
+++ b/Documentation/technical/reftable.md
@@ -566,6 +566,10 @@
[update-ref]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-update-ref#_logging_updates
+Contrary to traditional reflog (which is a file), renames are encoded as a
+combination of ref deletion and ref creation.
+
+
#### Reading the log
Readers accessing the log must first read the footer (below) to
