From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!? Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:32:22 -0800 Message-ID: <7vd40qg261.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <8c9a061001291227v34ca0745l1ab35ef6ca5863dc@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jacob Helwig , Ron1 , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jan 31 08:35:28 2010 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 1NbUL8-0001RS-PV for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:35:27 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752488Ab0AaHcf (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:32:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752442Ab0AaHcf (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:32:35 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:52350 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751263Ab0AaHce (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:32:34 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3688894B37; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:32:33 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=kRU/I+bgzbaMKRZyvyfNWbRqaqA=; b=kjv0AY H8wkIMU5U8EpxfVsdk4hHcaP3unJ7+j3yInbL/IV/gaQnMb4MFBmXMMT6GXVElKy dg0SazpHgh8r3KG/bw5Fz582W/DkKLcznxJKqqWXAKhiAh3Pro9OQcbmD1FdOTkg XomsVG8MxreiCah8mGn/jMbUXDHlcZzFeh4bY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=e2qCdwBWGju5E+NftCYsZLLnRGP6j4fD NVp9RRM+8X2cHPnVnzaioljsEabPk//D1o23uqSNV4e473A4AAzw8Tv2dYBmwJ7z Z/yrIbAAESE8pzitXcYtbDEOUgoqFEnufBK/c8cphUOgSr+gj6RousXyPp08KZea mOTyp7ACcjY= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC15894B36; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:32:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1E4AD94B35; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:32:23 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Fri\, 29 Jan 2010 21\:35\:12 +0100 \(CET\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: C91C698C-0E3A-11DF-8A5B-6AF7ED7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin writes: > Just as a general hint, I think the best documentation about Git was > written by J. Bruce Fields (the user manual) and Scott Chacon (everything > that has GitHub written on it, and Git Pro, and much, much more). The last one is "Pro Git": http://progit.org/book/; highly recommended. > ... If you > happen to speak Japanese, Junio's book might help you understand the ideas > behind the current Git user interface, too. Nah, I don't talk about UIs. I talk more about concepts.