Re: [PATCH] Detached HEAD (experimental)
- From
- J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
- Date
- Jan 6, 2007, 18:58 UTC
- Message-ID
- <20070106185836.GH4655@fieldses.org>
- In-Reply-To
- <87mz51gd7e.wl%cworth@cworth.org>
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 04:34:45PM -0800, Carl Worth wrote:
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> And now I start getting confused. If git-checkout wants a branch, and > git-branch says that "origin/next" is a branch, then why won't this > work? OK, I know that something's special about origin/next, (it's a > "remote-tracking branch" and I needed a -r option to get git-branch to > list it for me), but nothing in the git-checkout documentation would > lead me to expect that "git checkout origin/next" wouldn't work.
If we use the word "branches" for things that you can check out and commit to, then "remote-tracking branches" are not actually branches. Argh!
What would be better terminology here?
--b.