From: Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 01:53:58 GMT
Subject: Re: understanding how remote tracking works
Message-ID: <AANLkTinktpx-rXj1K0BSy0Qwo62SEGFAJWvhKo0nJq=i@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <i3nlq0$8un$1@dough.gmane.org>

Hi Ralf,

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Ralf Ebert <info@ralfebert.de> wrote:
> Hi Geoff,
>
>> Why does "git show-ref" show me far more than in
>> in .git/refs/remotes/origin?
>
> probably the other refs come from .git/packed-refs . See
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-pack-refs.html .

Yes. Many thanks. I'm working my way through Jon Loeliger's Git book and it's
confusing when the actual behaviour differs from that in the book :)

Cheers,
Geoff