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Re: Terminology question about remote branches.

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Aug 5, 2007, 09:46 UTC
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On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 11:44:12AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
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> Well, one problem is that there simply _is_ no part of the
> documentation where such an explanation would have a place.  It does
> [...]
> Hm.  Probably the usermanual is the best option in the current scheme
> of things.

I'm not too familiar with the usermanual, it having come about long after I started with git. But I wonder if a subsection on "refs" under the "Git internals" section might make sense.

-Peff
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