Michael Witten wrote: > On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 20:53, Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@xxxxxxxxx> 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. I guess I’ll bite. What does that mean? We have “show-ref” and “update-ref” precisely as low-level commands that are independent of representation. Probably the more relevant question: what do you want to do about it? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html