From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:26:36 GMT
Subject: Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!?
Message-ID: <7vaavso537.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <ron1-ABA66E.15563101022010@news.gmane.org>

Ron Garret <ron1@flownet.com> writes:

>> This shows that you are still thinking a branch is a line (or multiple
>> lines).  It is not.
>
> The git user's guide says it is:
>
> "When we need to be precise, we will use the word "branch" to mean a 
> line of development..."

I think the last paragraph "to put it in another way" in my other message
to you will clear this confusion.