From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Seymour Subject: Re: git branch documentation improvements Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 18:40:06 +1000 Message-ID: References: <201005070024.41172.ahartmetz@gmail.com> <4BE3BF2F.8050903@viscovery.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Andreas Hartmetz , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Sixt X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 07 10:40:17 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 1OAJ6W-0002LW-Uu for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 07 May 2010 10:40:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754689Ab0EGIkJ convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2010 04:40:09 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f183.google.com ([209.85.221.183]:34451 "EHLO mail-qy0-f183.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753915Ab0EGIkH convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2010 04:40:07 -0400 Received: by qyk13 with SMTP id 13so1227458qyk.1 for ; Fri, 07 May 2010 01:40:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=hopEMeANdsZZlpL1hTGryJ9H0goP8ZsL2vkdNY8xBQ0=; b=CyuYKFoKSYPw7RiSgK0vjbINMDq6295XMwMajvUYe/lim7ybDp6y3oGG4U+Y5GRnUK xDd1G4260DvkSbDP5aL9e/fjFo/f1czGbhxAOVl/9qSPDEdzj89mwAKtnkP4JV7UbaLr P7InbCAO4H3In5xSZDIehRAtSYdHuyYvUXGz0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=cJXqE07skKNHrzwC5OnZLUj4sZSgEs3mIuorg7vzdWXD/M9Ld7sanRCOX6mL4OfrlG KyhmNap2+x2yY8lX0Lsbb0RQeswvggmsDNAUxyQ9rcaimj03xJvJMpIaIPbFklDM8wqZ 5dUrE4a1MfbyywdkfS7DK79aFgB1ygKmrlHfc= Received: by 10.229.218.211 with SMTP id hr19mr1774619qcb.92.1273221606520; Fri, 07 May 2010 01:40:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.214.80 with HTTP; Fri, 7 May 2010 01:40:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4BE3BF2F.8050903@viscovery.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: My minor quibble with start-point is that the naive user may assume that, like CVS or SVN, git has some persistent notion of a "start point". In reality, git only tracks heads. A term like "head-commit" is, IMO, more precise than "start-point" and does not potentially convey the false notion that git knows or cares about the point at which a branch was "started". jon. On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Johannes Sixt wr= ote: > Am 5/7/2010 0:24, schrieb Andreas Hartmetz: >> The most significant change is renaming (or is it >> ...) to because even I as a relative begin= ner know >> that a branch is defined by its (movable) head, and *d= oes* >> actually specify the new branch head if I'm not mistaken. > > But what is wrong with "start-point"? It precisely conveys the meanin= g of > the parameter. > > -- Hannes > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at =C2=A0http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.ht= ml >