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master and origin

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PCPaolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 29, 2006, 20:53 UTC
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Hi all, I went trough the docs I found on the web but I still don't fully understand why if I clone a remote repository my local copy has two branches, origin (that is always a exact copy of the remote repository) and master which is... what? The branch supposed to be used for local development?

I'm used to just checkout to a new branch, do my own development and then diff against origin so I'm missing why I see the master branch.

I'm sure I'm missing something very fundamental but I cannot figure out what is it :-)

Thanks!
regards,
-- 
Paolo
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