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Re: understanding how remote tracking works

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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 9, 2010, 02:19 UTC
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Michael Witten wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 20:53, Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I'm working my way through Jon Loeliger's Git book and it's
>> confusing when the actual behaviour differs from that in the book
>
> This probably results from the git culture's conflation (or should I
> say confusion?) of low-level and high-level representations and
> commands.

I guess I’ll bite. What does that mean? We have “show-ref” and “update-ref” precisely as low-level commands that are independent of representation.

Probably the more relevant question: what do you want to do about it?
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  1. Geoff RussellAug 9, 2010
  2. Ralf EbertAug 9, 2010
  3. Geoff RussellAug 9, 2010
  4. Michael WittenAug 9, 2010
  5. Jonathan NiederAug 9, 2010
  6. Geoff RussellAug 9, 2010
  7. Junio C HamanoAug 9, 2010
  8. Jonathan NiederAug 9, 2010
  9. discarding refs/original/* after filter-branch (Re: understanding how remote tracking works)Jonathan Nieder, Aug 9, 2010
  10. Documentation: add a FILES section for show-refJonathan Nieder, Aug 9, 2010
  11. Junio C HamanoAug 9, 2010

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