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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: understanding how remote tracking works
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 21:19:00 -0500
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Michael Witten wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 20:53, Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.c=
om> wrote:

>> I'm working my way through Jon Loeliger's Git book and it's
>> confusing when the actual behaviour differs from that in the book
>
> This probably results from the git culture's conflation (or should I
> say confusion?) of low-level and high-level representations and
> commands.

I guess I=E2=80=99ll bite.  What does that mean?  We have =E2=80=9Cshow=
-ref=E2=80=9D and
=E2=80=9Cupdate-ref=E2=80=9D precisely as low-level commands that are i=
ndependent
of representation.

Probably the more relevant question: what do you want to do about it?