Re: Terminology question about remote branches.

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To: David Kastrup <dak@...>
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Date: Saturday, August 4, 2007 - 10:48 am

On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:01:55 +0200
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:


Sure, that's one way to describe it; perhaps it would be best if
we switched to that nomenclature in the documentation.


This is easy to test, and the answer is that no tracking is set up.
You must supply the remote-tracking-branch on the command line with
the --track option to git branch.  Actually I realized that with a
new enough version of Git, --track is implied.


It's not a problem, you could just add an appropriate [branch...] section
in your .git/config.   Actually looking at a typical branch section
is even more confusing to me:

    $ git branch fudge origin/fix1

adds this to the .git/config:

    [branch "fudge"]
        remote = origin
        merge = refs/heads/fix1

The config file does not record the remote-tracking-branch, instead
it explicitly records the remote repository information.  So it sure
appears that if you add the --track option, it _does_ make the local
branch track a remote directly.  Thus it's hard to call it anything
but what you labelled it,  a local tracking-branch.

While I thought i had a handle on this, i'm now officially more
confused than you; hopefully someone with knowledge of the guts
of Git will speak up.   Junio Help!

Sean
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Terminology question about remote branches., David Kastrup, (Sat Aug 4, 6:55 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., Junio C Hamano, (Sun Aug 5, 3:31 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., Julian Phillips, (Sun Aug 5, 10:23 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., David Kastrup, (Sun Aug 5, 11:09 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., Julian Phillips, (Sun Aug 5, 11:24 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., Steffen Prohaska, (Sun Aug 5, 6:07 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., David Kastrup, (Sat Aug 4, 10:01 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., Jeff King, (Sun Aug 5, 6:05 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., Steffen Prohaska, (Sun Aug 5, 6:56 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., Jeff King, (Sun Aug 5, 7:02 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., Sean, (Sat Aug 4, 10:48 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., Jeff King, (Sun Aug 5, 6:10 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., David Kastrup, (Sat Aug 4, 11:22 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., Jeff King, (Sat Aug 4, 8:02 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., David Kastrup, (Sat Aug 4, 8:36 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., Jeff King, (Sun Aug 5, 5:21 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., David Kastrup, (Sun Aug 5, 5:29 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., Jeff King, (Sun Aug 5, 5:32 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., David Kastrup, (Sun Aug 5, 5:44 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., Jeff King, (Sun Aug 5, 5:46 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., Lars Hjemli, (Sat Aug 4, 9:07 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., David Kastrup, (Sat Aug 4, 1:00 pm)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., Julian Phillips, (Sat Aug 4, 1:19 pm)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., David Kastrup, (Sat Aug 4, 2:00 pm)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., Theodore Tso, (Sat Aug 4, 6:56 pm)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., David Kastrup, (Sun Aug 5, 3:06 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., David Kastrup, (Sat Aug 4, 9:38 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., Lars Hjemli, (Sat Aug 4, 10:03 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., David Kastrup, (Sat Aug 4, 10:11 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., David Kastrup, (Sat Aug 4, 10:25 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., Julian Phillips, (Sat Aug 4, 10:50 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., Lars Hjemli, (Sat Aug 4, 10:35 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., David Kastrup, (Sat Aug 4, 11:09 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., Jeff King, (Sun Aug 5, 5:24 am)
Re: Terminology question about remote branches., Lars Hjemli, (Sat Aug 4, 11:48 am)