From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wink Saville Subject: Re: README rewrite Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 08:30:56 -0700 Message-ID: <42876B30.1070404@saville.com> References: <20050515044244.GA7391@tumblerings.org> <20050515044941.GB7391@tumblerings.org> <4286F146.2090302@saville.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, zbrown@tumblerings.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun May 15 17:22:56 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DXKwX-0006Uf-QG for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 15 May 2005 17:22:14 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261656AbVEOPWI (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 May 2005 11:22:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261658AbVEOPWI (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 May 2005 11:22:08 -0400 Received: from adsl-66-218-52-146.dslextreme.com ([66.218.52.146]:64783 "EHLO saville.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261656AbVEOPWB (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 May 2005 11:22:01 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.18] (unknown [192.168.0.18]) by saville.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1F23F1B07; Sun, 15 May 2005 08:16:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 127.0.0.1 (AVG SMTP 7.0.308 [266.11.10]); Sun, 15 May 2005 08:30:57 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <4286F146.2090302@saville.com> To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Wink Saville wrote: > Zack Brown wrote: > > > Hi Petr, > > > Actually looking in the repository I see that "origin" appears to be a > "branch" not a revision, what is the relationship between a branch, tag > and revision's? I have some experience with subversion and in subversion > they are actually all the same, simply the state of a "sub-tree" within > the repository at a particular "time". That time is defined by the > repositories current revison number which is incremented after each > succesful commit to the repository. > Zack, I patched the README by hand this morning and read the explanation on cg-tag and it appears branches, tags and revisions are synonymous, please correct me if I'm wrong. Is there a way to use time or relative values (HEAD-1) as "revision" parameters, it would be nice if its not already there. Again, thanks for the update adds very useful information! Wink -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.10 - Release Date: 5/13/2005