From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tuncer Ayaz Subject: Re: What are branches? Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:34:05 +0200 Message-ID: <4ac8254d0904191534q3abc4bdq7aebb0559803739@mail.gmail.com> References: <4ac8254d0904191510v72ab2f92t6839c8354d0c6fe4@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 20 00:36:07 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 1LvfcJ-0000y1-SI for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:36:04 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751634AbZDSWeX convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:34:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751273AbZDSWeW (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:34:22 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f176.google.com ([209.85.219.176]:45147 "EHLO mail-ew0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751161AbZDSWeV convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:34:21 -0400 Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so934275ewy.37 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:34:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=EN1SXXDnsu+2n6vsFCC3ZnMhf2CUE7vugQSLa3RBK2g=; b=N2yHg+/qhqUp7GUdbDqBZTD6sNCCfAkTZBFcM75LSd8QgylhERpFFSVaj6fsVu3oxP 6YOjpvkH1eIblhy6Dkfo4L3joIOlDn1tuQrcEE17bXovYEbzBuk2rdP3Qmt+C0EBjI59 2ZjqEFHB4LKBbXRlWI8NfuXTW8waXphpewNZ0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=XYu7xSDXww3KvHiA9dhjUGx3L+CJGIiZ8gJEOK2iwruV8HLrpdu23Q0JhtyeKd7hd7 aoluLioanDFFC2rvJJt06/gQMEFyvOW00r/ay5OTmJH6bMh0RXVqY7tgMmDPaTpPW3j7 GpkhmfaoP9Q9mODXZ2UeSdNm8SwZMN601B07g= Received: by 10.210.126.18 with SMTP id y18mr5130531ebc.45.1240180460093; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:34:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Tuncer Ayaz wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Johannes Schindelin >> wrote: >> >> > if you're like me, you used Git for _way_ too long to really >> > understand how anybody can say that Git is hard to learn. =A0The >> > concepts underlying Git have sunk so deep that I do not question t= hem >> > anymore. >> > >> > But it is important to keep in mind that our concept of branches i= s >> > not intuitive: >> > >> > http://longair.net/blog/2009/04/16/git-fetch-and-merge/ >> > >> > In particular, we have some pretty confusing nomenclature when it >> > comes to branches, and we might want to think how to improve the >> > situation. >> > >> > Food for thought on a lazy Sunday afternoon. >> >> Probably in the same confusion department: >> http://blog.teksol.info/2009/04/15/beware-of-gits-content-tracking.h= tml >> >> Is he right and is this the defined correct behavior? > > Could you please at least change the subject to something like "Somet= hing > else, was Re: ..." when you abduct the thread? sorry, will repost. I have to admit that I was 25% unsure whether this is related and the right/wrong context. oh and that number is exact :).