From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/16] pull: cleanup documentation Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:42:26 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1383211547-9145-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> <1383211547-9145-4-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Felipe Contreras , git@vger.kernel.org To: Max Horn X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 31 20:42:37 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vby8X-0002NR-Gp for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 20:42:33 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753125Ab3JaTma (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:42:30 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:42057 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752036Ab3JaTm3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:42:29 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D28264DBE3; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:42:28 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=57C83Co7b4jHOLH1+iLnTqvCIEE=; b=FU1rIg WBo/7tAyI+jeTlgv2yWlSn7jAegY3voKxbB1Y9VXOGT681VSHkmgeqPOzUlszmWi Gy/5eEpQKCCUsqPlo5a2ZYAlRkitFPUZTyEgJ8HAtYvgcWCc/lnPpUAEehfsU97q CRoUL+1OaXXu2E9LZIuy3wdKRmJsmiRVccHVo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=gcboE7UwwEBWTx6MuB3PuSJ2UUkVhPIO TsxaqIGlrxZIxOkewT/ToQOOlv0NA2qRyI+dwjP6ocJ0+1VNsjmd2jLt4Jyk7pDF +fJhbc+SCboN2FLAPvhafXMl5bEndbq6TxNLnORrqG4AglJ+oJFR/W5ihy8l4ldf uZr647uFHdU= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C25334DBE2; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:42:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [72.14.226.9]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 290444DBE1; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:42:28 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Max Horn's message of "Thu, 31 Oct 2013 20:27:19 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 93019CFC-4264-11E3-B974-1FFB7F2839F8-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Max Horn writes: >> ... The "reality" is more like this: >> >> origin/master in your repository >> | >> v >> A---B---C master at origin >> / >> D---E---F---G master in your repository >> >> if you really want to write origin/master somewhere in this >> illustration. > > Actually, I kind of like that. After just reading the existing > phrasing in git-pull.txt, I doubt that a newbie would catch the > difference between "origin/master" and "master at origin". With this > illustration, it's very clearly conveyed that there is a difference. Yeah, after re-reading the part of the documentation with the illustration replaced with the above, I was coming to the same conclusion.