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Re: [PATCH] glossary: explain "master" and "origin"

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Wwalt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
Date
Jan 10, 2006, 22:27 UTC
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J. Bruce Fields wrote: [...]

> 	Most projects have one upstream
> 	project which they track.  This is is the branch used for
> 	tracking that project...
s/This/'origin'/

Lordy, I think many of the world's problems could be solved just by forbidding the use of pronouns entirely!

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  1. glossary: explain "master" and "origin"Johannes Schindelin, Jan 10, 2006
  2. J. Bruce FieldsJan 10, 2006
  3. Johannes SchindelinJan 10, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoJan 11, 2006
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