Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 30, 2010, 05:18 UTC
Message-ID: <7v7hr041cc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <76718491001292052x7f46d479lfeff7b66121502c3@mail.gmail.com>

Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> writes:

> So that was a really long explanation, but I hope it clears things up.
> I think the disconnect between you and Junio is that you're thinking
> of branches in the DAG sense of the word, while Junio is talking about
> them in the context of git.

Yeah, in short, a "branch" is a point, not a line (or lines) of development that leads to a point, as I said in the beginning.

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