From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 15:48:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Terminology question about remote branches.
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