Re: [PATCH 09/10] user-manual.txt: explain better the remote(-tracking) branch terms

From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 26, 2010, 06:20 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTinJQMSbW-bsEOS9610GXR7EtbESK_tLAfxt2ibK@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1287986922-16308-10-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> wrote:

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> +In this case, "origin" is called a remote repository, or "remote" for
> +short. The branches of this repository are called "remote branches"
> +from our point of view, and Git will keep a copy of these
> +branches, called "remote-tracking branches" in the local repository.
> +These remote-tracking branches are references that will be updated by
> +"git fetch" (hence by "git pull"). See
> +<<Updating-a-repository-With-git-fetch>> for details.

"...and Git will initially clone these branches into so-called "remote-tracking branches" in the local repository. Thereafter, the remote-tracking branches are updated upon fetching from[1] or pushing to the remote. ([1] which also includes pulling.)

j.