Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:08 PM, John M. Dlugosz > <ngnr63q02@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On a related note, what exactly does "tracking" mean? I know that I can >> push/pull local names that match up with names on the origin, and that the >> latter are in the remotes/origin subdirectory. Those are what I think are >> called "remote tracking branches". Or is that just a part of the whole >> story? What is the correct nomenclature? > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/54822/ I do not think the description of remote-tracking in that article is correct. We use the word to call remote/origin/<name> that keeps copies of what we saw over there when we last observed. The way to mark local branches to merge with/rebase onto something else by default is --track option to "git branch" and "git checkout -b", and that is often used to mark them to --track remote-tracking branches but they do not have to --track remote-tracking branches. They can --track local branches as well. -- 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
