From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John M. Dlugosz" Subject: Re: setting up tracking on push Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:28:36 -0500 Message-ID: <4845-91917@sneakemail.com> References: <76718490903111758l4e4bd29et379e975deb8e99bd@mail.gmail.com> <76718490903111814t1ab90a39h9252d0ccf8af05c4@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Mar 15 04:56:47 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LihSx-0007q8-2g for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 04:56:47 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757145AbZCODzM (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:55:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754937AbZCODzM (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:55:12 -0400 Received: from sneakemail.com ([38.113.6.61]:43837 "HELO sneak1.sneakemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753236AbZCODzL (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:55:11 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 399 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:55:10 EDT Received: (qmail 8498 invoked by uid 508); 15 Mar 2009 03:48:29 -0000 Received: (sneakemail censored 4845-91917 #1); 15 Mar 2009 03:48:28 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081209 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <76718490903111814t1ab90a39h9252d0ccf8af05c4@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jay Soffian jaysoffian-at-gmail.com |git| wrote: > - The branches under refs/remotes (those shown by "git branch -r") are > remote tracking branches. > So that tells git fetch where to fetch from, which remote branches to > fetch, and where to store those branches locally. In this case, each > branch under refs/heads/ on git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git > will be fetched and stored locally as refs/remotes/origin/. Locally > the branches are called "remote tracking branches". > > Things under refs/remotes are remote tracking branches, and local branches (under refs/heads) that automatically updated based on a fetch ("store locally" means merge or rebase, right?) are also called remote tracking branches. I think that's why some of us are confused. --John