Re: Obscure error/warning/information message from git pull

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,
>     address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 01:48:46 +0900
> 
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>  > > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> 
>  > > True, but in practice there are *no* VCSes that have "active lines of
>  > > development".
>  > 
>  > I believe you.  But humans certainly do have that notion, at least
>  > some people sometimes do.
> 
> Yes, but what's your difficulty with git branches, then?

None I know of.  I don't have any trouble translating from my notions
and concepts to Git implementations and vice versa.  But I understand
why it could be difficult at first.

> Just say no to "branch ref is a whole branch".  As Achim already
> wrote, a branch is a branch ref plus what's reachable from that ref
> by following the ref and commit parents.

With that I fully agree, of course.