"remote branch" is a branch hosted in a remote repository, while "remote-tracking branch" is a copy of such branch, hosted locally. The distinction is subtle when the copy is up-to-date, but rather fundamental to understand what "git fetch" and "git push" do. This patch should fix all incorrect usages in Documentation/ directory. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxx> --- Documentation/config.txt | 7 ++++--- Documentation/git-branch.txt | 11 ++++++----- Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 2 +- Documentation/git-clone.txt | 2 +- Documentation/git-describe.txt | 2 +- Documentation/user-manual.txt | 9 +++++---- 6 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index e4f16d8..6a6c0b5 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -601,8 +601,9 @@ branch.autosetupmerge:: this behavior can be chosen per-branch using the `--track` and `--no-track` options. The valid settings are: `false` -- no automatic setup is done; `true` -- automatic setup is done when the - starting point is a remote branch; `always` -- automatic setup is - done when the starting point is either a local branch or remote + starting point is a remote-tracking branch; `always` -- + automatic setup is done when the starting point is either a + local branch or remote-tracking branch. This option defaults to true. branch.autosetuprebase:: @@ -613,7 +614,7 @@ branch.autosetuprebase:: When `local`, rebase is set to true for tracked branches of other local branches. When `remote`, rebase is set to true for tracked branches of - remote branches. + remote-tracking branches. When `always`, rebase will be set to true for all tracking branches. See "branch.autosetupmerge" for details on how to set up a diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt index 1940256..7f23c56 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt @@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ Note that this will create the new branch, but it will not switch the working tree to it; use "git checkout <newbranch>" to switch to the new branch. -When a local branch is started off a remote branch, git sets up the +When a local branch is started off a remote-tracking branch, git sets up the branch so that 'git pull' will appropriately merge from -the remote branch. This behavior may be changed via the global +the remote-tracking branch. This behavior may be changed via the global `branch.autosetupmerge` configuration flag. That setting can be overridden by using the `--track` and `--no-track` options. @@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ OPTIONS Move/rename a branch even if the new branch name already exists. --color[=<when>]:: - Color branches to highlight current, local, and remote branches. + Color branches to highlight current, local, and + remote-tracking branches. The value must be always (the default), never, or auto. --no-color:: @@ -125,11 +126,11 @@ OPTIONS it directs `git pull` without arguments to pull from the upstream when the new branch is checked out. + -This behavior is the default when the start point is a remote branch. +This behavior is the default when the start point is a remote-tracking branch. Set the branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable to `false` if you want `git checkout` and `git branch` to always behave as if '--no-track' were given. Set it to `always` if you want this behavior when the -start-point is either a local or remote branch. +start-point is either a local or remote-tracking branch. --no-track:: Do not set up "upstream" configuration, even if the diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 22d3611..880763d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ entries; instead, unmerged entries are ignored. "--track" in linkgit:git-branch[1] for details. + If no '-b' option is given, the name of the new branch will be -derived from the remote branch. If "remotes/" or "refs/remotes/" +derived from the remote-tracking branch. If "remotes/" or "refs/remotes/" is prefixed it is stripped away, and then the part up to the next slash (which would be the nickname of the remote) is removed. This would tell us to use "hack" as the local branch when branching diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index ab72933..2320382 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository. Set up a mirror of the source repository. This implies `--bare`. Compared to `--bare`, `--mirror` not only maps local branches of the source to local branches of the target, it maps all refs (including - remote branches, notes etc.) and sets up a refspec configuration such + remote-tracking branches, notes etc.) and sets up a refspec configuration such that all these refs are overwritten by a `git remote update` in the target repository. diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt index 7ef9d51..02e015a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ OPTIONS --all:: Instead of using only the annotated tags, use any ref found in `.git/refs/`. This option enables matching - any known branch, remote branch, or lightweight tag. + any known branch, remote-tracking branch, or lightweight tag. --tags:: Instead of using only the annotated tags, use any tag diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index d7835ca..d70f3e0 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -1724,7 +1724,8 @@ accomplish the above with just a simple $ git pull ------------------------------------------------- -More generally, a branch that is created from a remote branch will pull +More generally, a branch that is created from a remote-tracking branch +will pull by default from that branch. See the descriptions of the branch.<name>.remote and branch.<name>.merge options in linkgit:git-config[1], and the discussion of the `--track` option in @@ -2106,7 +2107,7 @@ $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git $ cd work ------------------------------------------------- -Linus's tree will be stored in the remote branch named origin/master, +Linus's tree will be stored in the remote-tracking branch named origin/master, and can be updated using linkgit:git-fetch[1]; you can track other public trees using linkgit:git-remote[1] to set up a "remote" and linkgit:git-fetch[1] to keep them up-to-date; see @@ -2800,8 +2801,8 @@ Be aware that commits that the old version of example/master pointed at may be lost, as we saw in the previous section. [[remote-branch-configuration]] -Configuring remote branches ---------------------------- +Configuring remote-tracking branches +------------------------------------ We saw above that "origin" is just a shortcut to refer to the repository that you originally cloned from. This information is -- 1.7.3.2.183.g2e7b0 -- 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