From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Obscure error/warning/information message from git pull Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 20:48:09 +0200 Message-ID: <83y4r76n86.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20141114180521.GA3168@acm.acm> <20141114230235.GF3168@acm.acm> <20141117141123.GA4294@acm.acm> <83lhn89zxn.fsf@gnu.org> <83bno49xtw.fsf@gnu.org> <20141118224326.GA5167@acm.acm> <87mw7n8k0f.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <837fyr88mc.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416422927 22159 80.91.229.3 (19 Nov 2014 18:48:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 18:48:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Sergey Organov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 19 19:48:40 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XrAIy-0007Rj-5i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 19:48:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60182 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrAIx-0003xh-SL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 13:48:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48723) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrAId-0003wc-2u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 13:48:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrAIX-0004aF-ME for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 13:48:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:58278) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrAIX-0004a5-EH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 13:48:13 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NFA00F00UEJ5O00@mtaout27.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 20:43:34 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NFA00FHSUOMXF00@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 20:43:34 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.183 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:177804 Archived-At: > From: Sergey Organov > Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 19:36:20 +0300 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> From: Achim Gratz > >> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 13:14:40 +0100 > >> > >> Branch foo consists of a label pointing at commit D and everything > >> reachable from D is on that branch. > > > > Now we are finally getting somewhere! Others claimed that a branch > > _is_ just its label, and nothing else. > > Branch /in Git/ is just a special kind of label, and nothing else. Well, now it's not only me you are up against ;-) > The above is an abstraction built on top of Git's idea of > branch. One can get a chain of commits from Git DAG starting at > branch 'foo' and call the result "branch foo", if it suits > him. Moreover, he can do this from any reference, even from SHA1. If > I get the same chain of commits from branch 'foo' and from commit > AF03276BC, is it the same branch? Is SHA1 a branch? Is Git tag a > branch? Why? As I already said elsewhere, you seem to have a serious problem distinguishing the name of a thing from the thing itself. But we are repeating ourselves. It's time to stop.