On 2008-12-29, Zorba <cr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Sitaram!
>
> Thanks for clearing that one up.
you're welcome; we've all done a bit of struggling I guess!
> 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)
Here's an extract from my notes/internal talks on this:
=== basic concepts
* a branch is "an active line of development"
* //master//: default branch in a project, by convention
* //head//: tip of a branch
* a repo can track many branches, but the working tree is associated with
only one branch at a time
* //HEAD//: tip of the branch associated with the working tree; this is
where commits go
** except when it's "detached"
> Thanks for your other post/reply too - I will be getting back to you on that
> one
Glad to be of help. I don't consider myself a guru, and am
constantly waiting for one of the real gurus to strike me
down with a thunderbolt for saying something stupid :-)
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