From: Miles Bader Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 04:16:15 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] user-manual.txt: explain better the remote(-tracking) branch terms Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Matthieu Moy writes: >> 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 -- Ocean, n. A body of water covering seven-tenths of a world designed for Man - who has no gills.