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

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 2, 2010, 00:53 UTC
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Ron Garret <ron1@flownet.com> writes:
> The manual specifically contradicts you, so either you are wrong or the 
> manual is wrong.

In case you haven't noticed, Pasky is one of the old timers and he knows a thing or two about the git's world model.

And I do not see a contradiction in what the manual describes and "a branch is a named pointer to a commit" (although "named" can probably be omitted as "unnamed pointer" is not useful at the UI level).

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