On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 6:42 AM, <sitaramc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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" That's a nice,compact and effective note. Thanks for sharing :-) Consider pushing the full notes to GITHUB...would be _useful_ for all of us..(like me)... -- dm -- 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
