On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 11:03:00AM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > Well, the important thing is that the _content_ is moving from the > > remote repository to the local one. That's how the arrow should be > > interpreted conceptually. The fact that technically we end up assigning > > the local ref with the remote value is a technical issue. > > If the _content_ is moving from the remote repository to the local > one, I would think the arrow should be pointing from the remote > repoistory to the local one, i.e.: > > * 895be02..2fe5433 next <- spearce/next > > But right now we are proposing: > > * 895be02..2fe5433 next -> spearce/next > > I would think the former makes more sense is the content is going > *from* spearce/next into the local next branch. No. "next" is the name of the _remote_ branch that is stored locally in spearce/next. So the arrow is correct. Nicolas - 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