From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] Re: Remote branchs -- how can I check them out? Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:32:58 -0600 Message-ID: <20110130213258.GA10039@burratino> References: <20110130160556.GI5713@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: =?utf-8?B?Sm/Do28=?= Paulo Melo de Sampaio , GIT Mailing List , Jakub Narebski To: Konstantin Khomoutov X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jan 30 22:33:45 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pjety-0006mz-Iq for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:33:43 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754344Ab1A3VdN (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:33:13 -0500 Received: from mail-yw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:32776 "EHLO mail-yw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754159Ab1A3VdM (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:33:12 -0500 Received: by ywe10 with SMTP id 10so1730460ywe.19 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:33:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; bh=Xma6rOtwSvxDHwDhwfSDoN1fzyFCm1egKIwGFn1yAR8=; b=oyTbl+YACj8CvJkdKvQW07n+hjrCUFSwU6h0XD/25KMC/i4chsoo8ynDVo9Q1b97JH 7NaZoOoNL3tvaWnVf2Wj0/o1Y31xF7HHoMgRCuEnJMtG3VyKJaKFDdIRhxr1C++sX1yL m8BZJCLfdVczUrKEeFaWcawgSAZLKYB19Hbjc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=kEbcmGvq2AuY6FXQ6N8gW1bb/zEg9t28O46s5TTFPAprKtWpluFQeiTa+J07drjHP7 rfJah1Mh5zZS2PMCwPqYr15VwydABj1KmztG/10ZgLINC16dwZC/kwjXQzgXQUnf80sm RoHdm+c+RsDG9YAqGSI/+Z8iuHKrlcy+xgQIk= Received: by 10.151.20.5 with SMTP id x5mr6825043ybi.382.1296423191959; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:33:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from burratino (adsl-69-209-75-28.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net [69.209.75.28]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q33sm13031749yba.19.2011.01.30.13.33.09 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:33:10 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110130160556.GI5713@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: > These branches are local to your repository. They are "remote" in the > sense you're not supposed to modify them directly. > So to inspect such a branch just use its full name ("origin/next" for > instance) when working with commands like git-log. > > See [1], [2] for more info. > > Also your question appears to be quite basic which hints at that you did > not read a good book on Git before using it. So starting at [3] is > recommended -- it mentions a bunch of good books and manuals Pointing to good references is a valuable thing --- thank you for that. But I also want to point out that if you need to read a book before Git becomes usable then we are doing something wrong. :) In this example, perhaps the "git branch" manual page needs some improvement? Jonathan Nieder (2): Documentation/branch: split description into subsections Documentation/branch: briefly explain what a branch is Documentation/git-branch.txt | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)