From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Detached HEAD (experimental) Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 17:52:42 -0500 Message-ID: <20070106225242.GJ4655@fieldses.org> References: <7vac11yirf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <87mz51gd7e.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <20070106185836.GH4655@fieldses.org> <200701062048.15163.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jan 06 23:52:48 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H3KP9-0001bW-O2 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 06 Jan 2007 23:52:48 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932255AbXAFWwo (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Jan 2007 17:52:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932257AbXAFWwo (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Jan 2007 17:52:44 -0500 Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:55696 "EHLO pickle.fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932255AbXAFWwo (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Jan 2007 17:52:44 -0500 Received: from bfields by pickle.fieldses.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H3KP4-0006Ml-DY; Sat, 06 Jan 2007 17:52:42 -0500 To: Alan Chandler Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200701062048.15163.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 08:48:15PM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Saturday 06 January 2007 18:58, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > If we use the word "branches" for things that you can check out and > > commit to, then "remote-tracking branches" are not actually branches. > > Argh! > > > > What would be better terminology here? > > Why can't we use the terms 'local branch' and 'remote branch'. We can > only commit to local branches - you need to push to remote ones. We'd have to replace "branch" by "local branch" in a lot of documentation, but that could work. Though what do you call a branch in a remote repository then, if not a remote branch? I suppose it doesn't matter. --b.