On Monday 07 February 2011, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 09:58, Johan Herland <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This is the same technique we use when talking about branch names: > > On this mailing list, nobody is confused when I refer to 'maint', > > 'master', 'next' and 'pu'. Still, in our own work repos (at least > > in mine), these branches are actually called > > "refs/remotes/origin/<name>" (commonly referred to by their > > shorthands "origin/<name>"). Here we are, juggling the same kind of > > namespaces that I propose for tags, and it seems to work well > > without causing much confusion. > > With the difference that you can't refer to "maint" as just "maint" > unless you've created "refs/heads/maint" iff it is unambiguous. Except that with 'git checkout', you can: $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git $ cd git/ $ git checkout maint ...Johan -- Johan Herland, <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx> www.herland.net -- 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