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Re: [PATCH] Documentation: remote tracking branch -> remote-tracking branch

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Oct 25, 2012, 09:54 UTC
Message-ID
<20121025095427.GL8390@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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<1350992045-11141-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 01:34:05PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> This change was already done by 0e615b252f3 (Matthieu Moy, Tue Nov 2
> 2010, Replace "remote tracking" with "remote-tracking"), but new
> instances of remote tracking (without dash) were introduced in the
> meantime.
Thanks. It seems like an obvious step forward.
> I'm not opposed to dropping completely the remote-tracking part in the
> case of merge (i.e. "remote-tracking branches that the current branch
> is configured to use as its upstream" -> "upstream branch") on top of
> that, but if we do this, merge-config.txt should be updated too).

Yeah, I do not care too deeply, but I think it reads just fine without mentioning remote-tracking at all.

-Peff
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  4. Matthieu MoyOct 23, 2012
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  6. Documentation: remote tracking branch -> remote-tracking branchMatthieu Moy, Oct 23, 2012
  7. Jeff KingOct 25, 2012

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