Re: user manual question

From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 29, 2008, 01:12 UTC
Message-ID: <slrnglg90m.olt.sitaramc@sitaramc.homelinux.net>
In-Reply-To: <gj96pl$885$4@ger.gmane.org>

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"

> Thanks for your other post/reply too - I will be getting back to you on that 
> one

Glad to be of help. I don't consider myself a guru, and am constantly waiting for one of the real gurus to strike me down with a thunderbolt for saying something stupid :-)