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Documentation: add "special refs" to the glossary 

Add the "special refs" term to our glossary.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -638,6 +638,20 @@ The most notable example is `HEAD`.
An <<def_object,object>> used to temporarily store the contents of a
<<def_dirty,dirty>> working directory and the index for future reuse.
[[def_special_ref]]special ref::
A ref that has different semantics than normal refs. These refs can be
accessed via normal Git commands but may not behave the same as a
normal ref in some cases.
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The following special refs are known to Git:
- "`FETCH_HEAD`" is written by linkgit:git-fetch[1] or linkgit:git-pull[1]. It
may refer to multiple object IDs. Each object ID is annotated with metadata
indicating where it was fetched from and its fetch status.
- "`MERGE_HEAD`" is written by linkgit:git-merge[1] when resolving merge
conflicts. It contains all commit IDs which are being merged.
[[def_submodule]]submodule::
A <<def_repository,repository>> that holds the history of a
separate project inside another repository (the latter of