From: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:58:55 GMT
Subject: Re: master and origin
Message-ID: <137435.85891.qm@web31809.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <4d8e3fd30610291253s2d8000dfx942e0fa20e0057f6@mail.gmail.com>

--- Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I went trough the docs I found on the web but I still don't fully
> understand why if I clone a remote repository my local copy has two
> branches, origin (that is always a exact copy of the remote
> repository) and master which is... what? The branch supposed to be
> used for local development?
> 
> I'm used to just checkout to a new branch, do my own development and
> then diff against origin so I'm missing why I see the master branch.
> 
> I'm sure I'm missing something very fundamental but I cannot figure
> out what is it :-)

Read the documentation of git-fetch and especially the second
"Note" therein.

   Luben