From: Philip Oakley Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 18:41:30 GMT Subject: Re: Everday contents Message-ID: In-Reply-To: From: "Junio C Hamano" > "Philip Oakley" writes: > >> From: "Junio C Hamano" >> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 11:08 PM >> ... >>> >>> | Individual Developer (Participant)[[Individual Developer >>> (Participant)]] >>> | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> ... >>> | $ git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/.../jgarzik/libata-dev.git ALL >>> <5> >> >> Would I be right that "ALL" can simply be dropped as something from >> back then' (13 Dec 2005 v0.99.9-516-g44db136) that I'm ignorant of? > > The answer depends on the reason why you want to drop it from the > example. > > That "ALL" is merely a branch name, like "master", etc. That was the bit I was missing. I had it in my head that it was possibly some historic option as it was in caps. > I do not > know how jgarzik names his published branches these days, but back > then ALL there was something that contained all the topics he wanted > others to look at. And the description of <5> explains it to be > fetching a "specific branch", so that needs to be reworded if we are I eventually went with using a lower case 'dev' as a nominal branch name, and also named it in the updated <5>. However I hadn't actually checked if the repos is still active. > to change the example to "from the default branch of a specific > repository" or something. > >> ... >>> | <5> fetch from a specific branch from a specific repository and >>> merge. > Thanks. Philip