On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>>> --- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt >>>> +++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt >>>> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Assume the following history exists and the current branch is >>>> "`master`": >>>> >>>> ------------ >>>> - A---B---C master on origin >>>> + A---B---C origin/master >>>> / >>>> D---E---F---G master >>>> ------------ >>> >>> This change is wrong; the illustration depicts the distributed world >>> (i.e. a fetch has not happened yet). >> >> That is an irrelevant implementation detail, specially at this high >> level. In the user's mind origin/master means master on origin. > > You are wrong. In the user's mind, origin/master means the commit > that used to be at master on origin, and the point of this > illustration is to make them understand that they live in a > distributed world, where their last observation will go stale over > time. Wrong. That would make sense in 'git fetch', but here the point of the illustration is to make them understand what 'git pull' will do, namely a merge. Which refs point to C at which points in time irrelevant information, the user wants to know that 'git pull' will create a merge. >> If you want to be pedantic, this is the "reality": >> >> ------------ >> D---E---F---G master >> ------------ > > You are wrong again. The "reality" is more like this: > > origin/master in your repository > | > v > A---B---C master at origin > / > D---E---F---G master in your repository > > if you really want to write origin/master somewhere in this > illustration. Wrong. You probably mean: ------------ A---B---C master on origin / D---E origin/master \ F---G master ------------ But 'master on origin' doesn't exist in "reality" according to you, so: ------------ D---E origin/master \ F---G master ------------ -- Felipe Contreras -- 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