From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:53:58 GMT
Subject: Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!?
Message-ID: <7vk4uwmp95.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <ron1-9A9CEA.16452601022010@news.gmane.org>

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).