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Re: Did anyone have trouble learning the idea of local vs. remote branches?

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date
Nov 8, 2006, 05:19 UTC
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Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
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> Today I was talking with someone that I collaborate with through
> Git and they still seemed to not get the idea that all branches
> in their repository are local, and that at least a 'git fetch'
> is needed to update the local tracking branches to the version
> in the central repository that we collaborate through.  And this
> isn't the first time we've had such discussions.

To me, the biggest difficulty was to understand the vocubulary. I started with cogito, and looked for branching features in cg-branch-*. The /features/ themselves seem nice, but the names of commands are confusing to me. I'd expect something called cg-branch-add to create a new branch, while it just tells cogito where to find one. And the git Vs cogito increased the confusion.

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  1. Shawn PearceNov 7, 2006
  2. Salikh ZakirovNov 7, 2006
  3. Shawn PearceNov 8, 2006
  4. Matthieu MoyNov 8, 2006
  5. Andreas EricssonNov 8, 2006
  6. Wink SavilleNov 8, 2006
  7. Jakub NarebskiNov 8, 2006
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