On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 7:36 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> +Submodules are not to be confused with remotes, which are meant
>>>> +mainly for branches of the same project;
>>>
>>> This use of 'branches' didn't work for me. "remotes are meant mainly for
>>> branches of the same project" ?
>
> The "branch" in the original is used in a much wider sense than
> usual branch (i.e. ref/heads/ thing you have locally); it refers to
> forks of the same project but with a bit of twist. When you say
> repository A is a fork of the same project as my local repository,
> you would give an impression that A is not the authoritative copy of
> the project. But you can say my repository and that repository A
> are branches of the same project, you give zero information as to
> A's authoritativeness.
While this is correct, I think it is also confusing, because 'branch'
is a command which deals with local branches only in my perception
To deal with remote branches you need to use the commands
{remote, fetch, pull}.
So when someone mentions "branch" I need to think of local operations
in one repository and not on different distributed histories.
>
>> Submodules should not be confused with remote repositories, which are
>> meant to track the same repository, just at another location; ...
>
> I do not think this is a great improvement. You now conflated
> "repository" to mean "project" in the latter half of the sentence,
> while you are trying to explain what a "remote repository" is.
That's true.
>
> Your copy of git.git is not the same repository as mine; they have
> different histories. Both repositories are used to work on the same
> project. "submoules are not remotes, which are other repositories
> of the same project", perhaps?
That makes sense.
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