From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:57:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] Documentation: clarify branch creation
Message-ID: <7viqeodq0s.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091009183408.GB2477@progeny.tock>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> So this page should probably point to the what-is-a-branch section of
> the User's Manual.  Maybe something like this?

Sounds good.  Thanks

> -- %< --
> Subject: Documentation: clarify branch creation
>
> The documentation seems to assume that the starting point for a new
> branch is the tip of an existing (ordinary) branch, but that is not
> the most common case.  More often, "git branch" is used to begin
> a branch from a remote-tracking branch, a tag, or an interesting
> commit (e.g. origin/pu^2).  Clarify the language so it can apply
> to these cases.  Thanks to Sean Estabrooks for the wording.
>
> Also add a pointer to the user's manual for the bewildered.
> ...