From: Andreas Hartmetz <ahartmetz@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git branch documentation improvements
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 20:27:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201005112027.05818.ahartmetz@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BE7A629.7050709@viscovery.net>
On Monday 10 May 2010 08:22:33 Johannes Sixt wrote:
> Am 5/8/2010 18:39, schrieb Andreas Hartmetz:
> > On Friday 07 May 2010 09:20:15 Johannes Sixt wrote:
> >> But what is wrong with "start-point"? It precisely conveys the meaning
> >> of the parameter.
> >
> > Look at -f: as far as I understand it moves the branch *head*, so
> > start-point is plain wrong. The "root" of the branch is not moved, or
> > only moved indirectly (not sure if the latter is allowed).
>
> Huh? The purpose of -f is not to *move* a branch head, but to say "trust
> me, I know what I'm doing". Why would "start-point" not be suitable in
> this case?
>
Because a branch doesn't start at the head.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-06 22:24 git branch documentation improvements Andreas Hartmetz
2010-05-06 22:59 ` Jon Seymour
2010-05-07 1:04 ` Andreas Hartmetz
2010-05-07 2:28 ` Andreas Hartmetz
2010-05-07 7:20 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-05-07 8:40 ` Jon Seymour
2010-05-08 16:39 ` Andreas Hartmetz
2010-05-10 6:22 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-05-11 18:27 ` Andreas Hartmetz [this message]
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