From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 02:08:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Re* [PATCH] doc: glossary: add entry for revision range
Message-ID: <YKMhqZNhamnKqWfi@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <60a2daa57d8a6_13c370208f3@natae.notmuch>

On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 04:05:41PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:

> > >> Nobody uses "origin" (what does that even mean?), [...]
> > >
> > > I guess I'm "nobody" then, because I use it all the time.
> > 
> > Oh, I'm nobody, too, and so are many others ;-)
> 
> That depends on the definition of "many". My guess is that it's less
> than 1% of users (probably 0.01%), and for me that's not many.
> 
> If you google for `git remote "set-head"` there's barely any
> information. It's basically all online man pages.

Why would people need to use "git remote set-head" most of the time? The
symlink is set up properly by git-clone, and has been for many years.
For most people, using "origin" just works (the exception is people who
"git init" and then "git remote add origin" themselves; since we're
guessing at numbers, I would guess that _that_ population is less than
1% of users).

-Peff