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Re: user manual question

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Dilip M <dilipm79@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 29, 2008, 06:33 UTC
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<c94f8e120812282233i3783cf65o5ad9663e079e7fd6@mail.gmail.com>
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<slrnglg90m.olt.sitaramc@sitaramc.homelinux.net>
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 6:42 AM, <sitaramc@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 2008-12-29, Zorba <cr@altmore.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi Sitaram!
>>
>> Thanks for clearing that one up.
>
> you're welcome; we've all done a bit of struggling I guess!
>
>> Also, I did wonder about HEAD and head. One can move, the other
>> doesn't!  (well, acually it does - head moves "forward", as the tip
>> of the branch grows)
>
> Here's an extract from my notes/internal talks on this:
>
>    === basic concepts      * a branch is "an active line of
> development"      * //master//: default branch in a project, by
> convention      * //head//: tip of a branch      * a repo can track
> many branches, but the working tree is associated with        only one
> branch at a time      * //HEAD//: tip of the branch associated with
> the working tree; this is        where commits go        ** except
> when it's "detached"

That's a nice,compact and effective note. Thanks for sharing :-) Consider pushing the full notes to GITHUB...would be _useful_ for all of us..(like me)...

-- dm
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  3. Dilip MDec 28, 2008
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  7. Dilip MDec 29, 2008
  8. ZorbaDec 29, 2008
  9. Björn SteinbrinkDec 29, 2008
  10. Markus HeidelbergDec 29, 2008
  11. Sitaram ChamartyDec 29, 2008
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