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Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:28:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Matthias Goergens Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Niklas Cassel , Bence Ferdinandy , Philip Oakley , =?utf-8?Q?Jean-No=C3=ABl?= Avila Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] doc: remote: say that it only affects the local repository In-Reply-To: <20260929120010.840402-1-matthias.goergens@gmail.com> (Matthias Goergens's message of "Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:00:10 +0800") References: <20260927055040.2441925-1-matthias.goergens@gmail.com> <20260929120010.840402-1-matthias.goergens@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:28:25 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Matthias Goergens writes: > diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote.adoc b/Documentation/git-remote.adoc > index eaae30aa88..315100409d 100644 > --- a/Documentation/git-remote.adoc > +++ b/Documentation/git-remote.adoc > @@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ DESCRIPTION > > Manage the set of repositories ("remotes") whose branches you track. > > +`git remote` changes only the local repository, i.e. its configuration > +and its refs, and never modifies a remote repository. Some subcommands, > +such as `show`, `prune`, `update` and `set-head --auto`, contact a > +remote repository to read from it. > + I would not have minded having additional text in descriptions for individual operations like 'set-head' and 'prune' that might be misread to work on the other side, but the description above is very clear and we may not need anything extra. I also like the second sentence, mentioning that some commands read from the remote. It implicitly stresses that nobody writes to the remote. Thanks.