From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 10:10:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Terminology question about remote branches.
Message-ID: <20070805101053.GH12507@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070804104851.162d7e00.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 10:48:51AM -0400, Sean wrote:

> The config file does not record the remote-tracking-branch, instead
> it explicitly records the remote repository information.  So it sure
> appears that if you add the --track option, it _does_ make the local
> branch track a remote directly.  Thus it's hard to call it anything
> but what you labelled it,  a local tracking-branch.
> 
> While I thought i had a handle on this, i'm now officially more
> confused than you; hopefully someone with knowledge of the guts
> of Git will speak up.   Junio Help!

There is some discussion in this thread:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/35090/focus=35265

-Peff