Jay Soffian jaysoffian-at-gmail.com |git| wrote:
- The branches under refs/remotes (those shown by "git branch -r") are
remote tracking branches.
> So that tells git fetch where to fetch from, which remote branches to
fetch, and where to store those branches locally. In this case, each
branch under refs/heads/ on git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
will be fetched and stored locally as refs/remotes/origin/. Locally
the branches are called "remote tracking branches".
Things under refs/remotes are remote tracking branches, and local
branches (under refs/heads) that automatically updated based on a fetch
("store locally" means merge or rebase, right?) are also called remote
tracking branches.
I think that's why some of us are confused.
--John
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