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From: Martin Nordholts <enselic@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clarify the git-branch documentation of default start-point
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:21:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A3A77B3.8070502@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v63eu0ze4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> What I am trying to clarify is that a remote branch will never be the
>> default for the start-point argument to git-branch, so if someone wants
>> a remote branch as start-point, then the branch must be explicitly
>> specified.
>>     
>
> Because I misread your updated documentation, somehow I thought you were
> talking about "checkout -b".  Sorry for getting confused (and perhaps
> giving a confusing answer).
>
> There are two concepts you seem to be confused about: <start-point> and
> branch tracking.
>   

I indeed confused these concepts and I think your patch makes the 
documentation clearer here

 / Martin

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-18 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-18  5:41 [PATCH] Clarify the git-branch documentation of default start-point Martin Nordholts
2009-06-18  5:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-18  6:04   ` Martin Nordholts
2009-06-18  7:33     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-18 17:21       ` Martin Nordholts [this message]
2009-06-18  7:57     ` Michael J Gruber

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