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suggestion for git glossary: upstream, downstream

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SSSteve Summit <scs@eskimo.com>
Date
Dec 29, 2020, 13:15 UTC
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The terms "upstream" and "downstream" are heavily used in much writing about git, with obvious meanings and implications for those who use git regularly, but they're not defined at https://git-scm.com/docs/gitglossary . Perhaps they should be? (Sorry, I'm not nearly experienced enough with git yet to write good definitions myself, though.)

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