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

From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Oct 26, 2010, 04:16 UTC
Message-ID: <buoy69llhbk.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqr5fdmywj.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

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>> No. Git does not “maintain a copy of [the remote] branches”.
>
> Which part of the sentence is problematic to you ?
>
> Remote-tracking branches _are_ a copy of the branches. The copy is
> made at "git clone" time, and is periodically updated with "git fetch"
> later. And it seems to me that "periodically update" is a way to
> "maintain" the copy up-to-date.
>
> In the latest version of the patch, I changed "maintain" to "keep",
> following Jakub's remark. Is that better?

Yup.

As far as I can tell, Thore's complaint is that the copy is not kept perfectly up-to-date automatically, but I think he's incorrect to assume that the language here implies that. It doesn't. "Maintaining a copy" simply means to keep a copy, so your change seems valid, though.

I supposes git is also used by many people with a less-than-perfect command of english though, so perhaps using simpler language is sometimes warranted...

-Miles

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