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authorJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>2006-12-31 18:47:36 -0500
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2006-12-31 16:37:20 -0800
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Documentation: update glossary entry for "origin"
Update glossary entry for "origin" to reflect fact that it normally now refers to a remote repository, not a branch. Also, warning not to work on remote-tracking branches is no longer necessary since git doesn't allow that. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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@@ -188,11 +188,12 @@ octopus::
predator.
origin::
- The default upstream tracking branch. Most projects have at
+ The default upstream repository. Most projects have at
least one upstream project which they track. By default
'origin' is used for that purpose. New upstream updates
- will be fetched into this branch; you should never commit
- to it yourself.
+ will be fetched into remote tracking branches named
+ origin/name-of-upstream-branch, which you can see using
+ "git branch -r".
pack::
A set of objects which have been compressed into one file (to save