On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 6:10 PM Philip Oakley <philipoakley@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> It is a 'branch which tracks a remote', and it is has the 'last time I > >> looked' state of the branch that is on the remote server, which may > >> have, by now, advanced or changed. > >> > >> So you need to have the three distinct views in your head of 'My branch, > >> held locally', 'my copy of Their branch, from when I last looked', and > >> 'Their branch, on a remote server, in a state I haven't seen recently'. > > What I was looking for is this. I don't think we have something like > > this in the man pages (I only checked a few though) and not even sure > > where it should be if it should be added to the man pages, git-branch? > > git-remote? git-fetch? git-branch.txt might be the best place because > > this is still about branches. > > > At the moment its in `git help glossary`, but could be improved, and > references to it given in the various man pages. It does not look easy to link to a specific term/section between man pages. The way user-manual.html does it is to embed the whole glossary. I suppose we could still do something similar after breaking down glossary.txt (like we do with config.txt) the only include relevant terms. Not sure if this a really good idea to pursue. -- Duy
