From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 02:19:00 GMT
Subject: Re: understanding how remote tracking works
Message-ID: <20100809021900.GA10596@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=usaZGfOM67acmdAWwvbHe_eHyjmRLGmdTYNaC@mail.gmail.com>

Michael Witten wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 20:53, Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com> wrote:

>> 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?