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[PATCH] Use hyphenated "remote-tracking branch" (docs and comments)

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Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Date
Jun 7, 2018, 11:53 UTC
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Use the obvious consensus of hyphenated "remote-tracking branch", and fix an obvious typo, all in documentation and comments.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
---
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index 4a5cc38a6f..ef9d9d28a9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ have to use '../foo.git' instead of './foo.git' - as one might expect
 when following the rules for relative URLs - because the evaluation
 of relative URLs in Git is identical to that of relative directories).
 +
-The default remote is the remote of the remote tracking branch
-of the current branch. If no such remote tracking branch exists or
+The default remote is the remote of the remote-tracking branch
+of the current branch. If no such remote-tracking branch exists or
 the HEAD is detached, "origin" is assumed to be the default remote.
 If the superproject doesn't have a default remote configured
 the superproject is its own authoritative upstream and the current
diff --git a/builtin/branch.c b/builtin/branch.c
index d53f6e2ad4..5217ba3bde 100644
--- a/builtin/branch.c
+++ b/builtin/branch.c
@@ -701,7 +701,7 @@ int cmd_branch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		 * If no sorting parameter is given then we default to sorting
 		 * by 'refname'. This would give us an alphabetically sorted
 		 * array with the 'HEAD' ref at the beginning followed by
-		 * local branches 'refs/heads/...' and finally remote-tacking
+		 * local branches 'refs/heads/...' and finally remote-tracking
 		 * branches 'refs/remotes/...'.
 		 */
 		if (!sorting)
diff --git a/builtin/pull.c b/builtin/pull.c
index 1f2ecf3a88..49cc3beb4c 100644
--- a/builtin/pull.c
+++ b/builtin/pull.c
@@ -673,7 +673,7 @@ static const char *get_upstream_branch(const char *remote)
 }

 /**
- * Derives the remote tracking branch from the remote and refspec.
+ * Derives the remote-tracking branch from the remote and refspec.
  *
  * FIXME: The current implementation assumes the default mapping of
  * refs/heads/<branch_name> to refs/remotes/<remote_name>/<branch_name>.
@@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ static const char *get_tracking_branch(const char *remote, const char *refspec)

 /**
  * Given the repo and refspecs, sets fork_point to the point at which the
- * current branch forked from its remote tracking branch. Returns 0 on success,
+ * current branch forked from its remote-tracking branch. Returns 0 on success,
  * -1 on failure.
  */
 static int get_rebase_fork_point(struct object_id *fork_point, const char *repo,
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