From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master 11abc4a: Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/lexical-gnus' into trunk Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2021 17:06:52 +0200 Message-ID: <83lfc65x0z.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20210131223952.429.10439@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20210131223954.A429420DF3@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <87ft2evq8b.fsf@igel.home> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="10922"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 02 16:33:09 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l6xfx-0002jn-46 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2021 16:33:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52610 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l6xfw-000752-3u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2021 10:33:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56352) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l6xGu-0007bN-Oz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2021 10:07:16 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47470) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l6xGt-00047M-B1; Tue, 02 Feb 2021 10:07:15 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4601 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l6xGZ-0006Ku-OP; Tue, 02 Feb 2021 10:07:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87ft2evq8b.fsf@igel.home> (message from Andreas Schwab on Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:16:52 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:263720 Archived-At: > From: Andreas Schwab > Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:16:52 +0100 > Cc: yamaoka@jpl.org, Stefan Monnier , > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On Feb 02 2021, Richard Stallman wrote: > > > Would someone please tell me what "remote tracking" means, concretely? > > See gitglossary(7). Which divulges this: remote-tracking branch A "ref" that is used to follow changes from another "repository". It typically looks like refs/remotes/foo/bar (indicating that it tracks a branch named bar in a remote named foo), and matches the right-hand-side of a configured fetch "refspec". A remote-tracking branch should not contain direct modifications or have local commits made to it. Basically, "remote-tracking branch is a branch that tracks some remote". Very clear, right? And if you think that the references clarify this, then here they are: ref A name that begins with refs/ (e.g. refs/heads/master) that points to an object name or another ref (the latter is called a symbolic ref). For convenience, a ref can sometimes be abbreviated when used as an argument to a Git command; see gitrevisions(7) for details. Refs are stored in the repository. refspec A "refspec" is used by fetch and push to describe the mapping between remote ref and local ref.