Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> +In this case, "origin" is called a remote repository, or "remote" for >> +short. The branches of this repository are called "remote branches" >> +from our point of view, and Git will keep a copy of these >> +branches, called "remote-tracking branches" in the local repository. >> +These remote-tracking branches are references that will be updated by >> +"git fetch" (hence by "git pull"). See >> +<<Updating-a-repository-With-git-fetch>> for details. > > "...and Git will initially clone these branches into so-called > "remote-tracking branches" in the local repository. I don't thinks it's a good idea to use the word "clone" here. "clone" is used for repository cloning, and I find it confusing to overload the word for branches. > Thereafter, the > remote-tracking branches are updated upon fetching from[1] or pushing > to the remote. ([1] which also includes pulling.) I don't like the [1] kind of footnote within the text, but I forgot to mention that "git push" updates the remote-tracking in my text. That'll be fixed in next version. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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