Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:Jeff, I actually have no _clue_ what I "mean" with respect to the established git terminology because I can't reconcile the documentation's use of words with my meagre understanding of the technical processes involved. So I can't even tell you whether "by remote branch I mean a remote tracking branch". Well, of _course_ it is confusingly similar. After all, I am posting this question because I _am_ confused! And I am trying to both clear up my confusion as well as get an idea how to fix the documentation to be less confusing. Sigh. But it is cached and updated locally in some manner when pulling, isn't it? I can diff against it. It is not just git-pull. I don't get the fine lines between "remote", "remote tracking" and the respective details in either the user manual or the manual pages of branch-related commands. And it's actually worse after your explanations. Previously I imagined to have a chance to figure this out on my own, by trying to abstract from what I see happening when using the various commands. Now I think that I basically have no chance figuring this out on my own sufficiently well to be able to improve the documentation. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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