Hi Sitaram! Thanks for clearing that one up. Also, I did wonder about HEAD and head. One can move, the other doesn't! (well, acually it does - head moves "forward", as the tip of the branch grows) you gotta love it :-) Thanks for your other post/reply too - I will be getting back to you on that one Conor "Sitaram Chamarty" <sitaramc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:slrnglf3qh.c7j.sitaramc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > On 2008-12-28, Zorba <cr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Under "Examining an old version without creating a new branch" subsection >> in >> chapter1 >> >> to aid my understanding, could the statement: >> >> "The HEAD then refers to the SHA1 of the commit instead of to a branch, >> and >> git branch shows that you are no longer on a branch:" >> >> be restated more explicitly as: >> >> "The HEAD then refers to the SHA1 of the commit instead of to a branch >> head, >> and git branch shows that you are no longer on a branch head:" > > Sure, but I prefer "tip"; reduces confusion between "head" > and "HEAD" in spoken descriptions (I teach internal classes > on git occasionally, once even on a conf call!) > > The git glossary makes no mention of "tip", so this is > probably "unblessed" :-) > -- 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
