Re: Terminology question about remote branches.

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Aug 5, 2007, 10:05 UTC
Message-ID: <20070805100532.GG12507@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <85ejijgzzg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 04:01:55PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:

> So --track does not set up a tracking branch, but makes a local
> _following_ branch _refer_ to a tracking branch.

A minor nit, but --track sets up a local following branch to refer to a remote's branch, _not_ to the tracking branch. In other words, if you look at the config:

  [branch "master"]
    remote = origin
    merge = refs/heads/master

It does _not_ reference the tracking branch "refs/remotes/origin/master", but rather the remote's name for the branch "refs/heads/master".

There was much discussion of this topic, but the general idea was not to require remote tracking branches for this feature to be used (a position I somewhat disagree with, but then I'm not the maintainer).

-Peff