Re: Missing branches after clone

> On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 6:10 PM Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> wrote:
>>>> It is a 'branch which tracks a remote', and it is has the 'last time I
>>>> looked' state of the branch that is on the remote server, which may
>>>> have, by now, advanced or changed.
>>>>
>>>> So you need to have the three distinct views in your head of 'My branch,
>>>> held locally', 'my copy of Their branch, from when I last looked', and
>>>> 'Their branch, on a remote server, in a state I haven't seen recently'.
>>> What I was looking for is this. I don't think we have something like
>>> this in the man pages (I only checked a few though) and not even sure
>>> where it should be if it should be added to the man pages, git-branch?
>>> git-remote? git-fetch? git-branch.txt might be the best place because
>>> this is still about branches.
>>>
>> At the moment its in `git help glossary`, but could be improved, and
>> references to it given in the various man pages.
> It does not look easy to link to a specific term/section between man
> pages. The way user-manual.html does it is to embed the whole
> glossary.
>
> I suppose we could still do something similar after breaking down
> glossary.txt (like we do with config.txt) the only include relevant
> terms. Not sure if this a really good idea to pursue.