Re: Terminology question about remote branches.

From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 4, 2007, 15:48 UTC
Message-ID: <8c5c35580708040848u78c4a913tf650325fff6a0bb7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <85odhnfiau.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

On 8/4/07, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:

> This whole "remote tracking" appears to be more a matter of _policy_
> rather than inherent design.

Absolutely.

> It would appear that local and remote
> tracking branches have no fundamental differences

I'd say they have no differences at all, it's just that 'git-checkout.sh' will refuse to update HEAD to point at something outside of refs/heads.

-- 
larsh

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