From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Update glossary entry for "origin" to reflect fact that it normally now refers to a remote repository, not a branch. Also, warning not to work on remote-tracking branches is no longer necessary since git doesn't allow that. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/glossary.txt | 7 ++++--- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/glossary.txt b/Documentation/glossary.txt index 894883d..7c1a659 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary.txt @@ -188,11 +188,12 @@ octopus:: predator. origin:: - The default upstream tracking branch. Most projects have at + The default upstream repository. Most projects have at least one upstream project which they track. By default 'origin' is used for that purpose. New upstream updates - will be fetched into this branch; you should never commit - to it yourself. + will be fetched into remote tracking branches named + origin/name-of-upstream-branch, which you can see using + "git branch -r". pack:: A set of objects which have been compressed into one file (to save -- 1.5.0.rc0.gac28 - 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