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On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 20:53, Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm working my way through Jon Loeliger's Git book and it's
> confusing when the actual behaviour differs from that in the book

This probably results from the git culture's conflation (or should I
say confusion?) of low-level and high-level representations and
commands.