From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 18:58:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Detached HEAD (experimental)
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:
> 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.