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Re: master 11abc4a: Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/lexical
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: master 11abc4a: Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/lexical-gnus' into trunk |
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Tue, 02 Feb 2021 17:06:52 +0200 |
> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:16:52 +0100
> Cc: yamaoka@jpl.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> On Feb 02 2021, Richard Stallman wrote:
>
> > Would someone please tell me what "remote tracking" means, concretely?
>
> See gitglossary(7).
Which divulges this:
remote-tracking branch
A "ref" that is used to follow changes from another
"repository". It typically looks like refs/remotes/foo/bar
(indicating that it tracks a branch named bar in a remote named
foo), and matches the right-hand-side of a configured fetch
"refspec". A remote-tracking branch should not contain direct
modifications or have local commits made to it.
Basically, "remote-tracking branch is a branch that tracks some
remote". Very clear, right?
And if you think that the references clarify this, then here they are:
ref
A name that begins with refs/ (e.g. refs/heads/master) that points
to an object name or another ref (the latter is called a symbolic
ref). For convenience, a ref can sometimes be abbreviated when used
as an argument to a Git command; see gitrevisions(7) for
details. Refs are stored in the repository.
refspec
A "refspec" is used by fetch and push to describe the mapping
between remote ref and local ref.
- Re: master 11abc4a: Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/lexical-gnus' into trunk, (continued)
- Re: master 11abc4a: Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/lexical-gnus' into trunk, Stefan Monnier, 2021/02/01
- Re: master 11abc4a: Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/lexical-gnus' into trunk, Richard Stallman, 2021/02/02
- Re: master 11abc4a: Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/lexical-gnus' into trunk, Tassilo Horn, 2021/02/02
- Re: master 11abc4a: Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/lexical-gnus' into trunk, tomas, 2021/02/02
- Re: master 11abc4a: Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/lexical-gnus' into trunk, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/02
- Re: master 11abc4a: Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/lexical-gnus' into trunk, tomas, 2021/02/02
- Re: master 11abc4a: Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/lexical-gnus' into trunk, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/02
- git things [was: master 11abc4a: Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/lexical-gnus' into trunk], tomas, 2021/02/02
- Re: master 11abc4a: Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/lexical-gnus' into trunk, Richard Stallman, 2021/02/03
- Re: master 11abc4a: Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/lexical-gnus' into trunk, Andreas Schwab, 2021/02/02
- Re: master 11abc4a: Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/lexical-gnus' into trunk,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: master 11abc4a: Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/lexical-gnus' into trunk, Richard Stallman, 2021/02/03
- Re: master 11abc4a: Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/lexical-gnus' into trunk, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/03
- Re: master 11abc4a: Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/lexical-gnus' into trunk, Richard Stallman, 2021/02/04
Re: master 11abc4a: Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/lexical-gnus' into trunk, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/02/02