From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:46:06 GMT
Subject: Re: "remote-tracking branch"?
Message-ID: <7vipex7q5t.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vr4tl7qu3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Unfortunately, no concensus terminology for them exist; I find
> myself calling them "the branch you integrate with upstream's
> master", "the branch you forked from origin's topic", etc.

Actually, I take that "no concensus exists" back.  "upstream" is
probably the closest to the consensus terminology, and that is why
"git log master@{upstream}" will give you the history of the remote
tracking branch you use to integrate with master.