From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:38:09 GMT
Subject: Re: user manual question
Message-ID: <slrnglf3qh.c7j.sitaramc@sitaramc.homelinux.net>
In-Reply-To: <gj7mmo$fvk$4@ger.gmane.org>

On 2008-12-28, Zorba <cr@altmore.co.uk> wrote:
> Under "Examining an old version without creating a new branch" subsection in 
> chapter1
>
> to aid my understanding, could the statement:
>
> "The HEAD then refers to the SHA1 of the commit instead of to a branch, and 
> git branch shows that you are no longer on a branch:"
>
> be restated more explicitly as:
>
> "The HEAD then refers to the SHA1 of the commit instead of to a branch head, 
> and git branch shows that you are no longer on a branch head:"

Sure, but I prefer "tip"; reduces confusion between "head"
and "HEAD" in spoken descriptions (I teach internal classes
on git occasionally, once even on a conf call!)

The git glossary makes no mention of "tip", so this is
probably "unblessed" :-)