Re: Terminology question about remote branches.

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To: Sean <seanlkml@...>
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Date: Saturday, August 4, 2007 - 11:22 am

Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> writes:


Not according to my current understanding, but that can, of course,
change again in the next few hours.  As far as I understand right now,
such a branch indeed tracks a remote branch (and not a remote tracking
branch), it just does not track it recklessly: it has a head of its
own, and it won't use git-fetch -f for updating it.


Yes, it seems --track does track after all.  Just more cautiously than
a remote tracking branch does.


Good.  It means that I may not be a complete idiot.  It may also mean
that the documentation can be improved in places.  With a lot of
"grep" and fine-combing I realized that quite a bit of the information
_is_ "available" (and some conflicting information as well).

This is one reason why I would prefer to have something like a typical
Texinfo manual, at least on the organisational level: a manual is
supposed to present a single connected view to the available
documentation.  And the information for git is scattered through a
bunch of mostly disconnected files.

If you want to see a more staggering example of this approach, take a
look at the "guilt" documentation.  It consists only of the man pages
for the individual commands, and then some few README-like files which
mostly say something like "guilt is just like quilt, or like
Mercurial's patch sets".  That's rather extreme as far as
user-accessible information goes.  git has a few more generally useful
files explaining underlying concepts, but they still are basically
thrown into one large self-service heap, not a coherent document.


I think I am slowly getting it, thanks to Lars and others.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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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., 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)