X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fglossary-content.txt;h=43d84d15e921435ba4629a7d8c18021d16f89223;hb=1b52ac5935c3773596fa41f6cf83578ab86b6b83;hp=9afca755ed309b5bdf3cd293d6120f676f1053cd;hpb=54e0e6edfa60f84b582112804365e207e70f44a6;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index 9afca755e..43d84d15e 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ This commit is referred to as a "merge commit", or sometimes just a 'origin' is used for that purpose. New upstream updates will be fetched into remote <> named origin/name-of-upstream-branch, which you can see using - "`git branch -r`". + `git branch -r`. [[def_pack]]pack:: A set of objects which have been compressed into one file (to save space @@ -449,7 +449,13 @@ This commit is referred to as a "merge commit", or sometimes just a An <> which is not <> from a <>, <>, or any other reference. +[[def_upstream_branch]]upstream branch:: + The default <> that is merged into the branch in + question (or the branch in question is rebased onto). It is configured + via branch..remote and branch..merge. If the upstream branch + of 'A' is 'origin/B' sometimes we say "'A' is tracking 'origin/B'". + [[def_working_tree]]working tree:: - The tree of actual checked out files. The working tree is - normally equal to the <> plus any local changes - that you have made but not yet committed. + The tree of actual checked out files. The working tree normally + contains the contents of the <> commit's tree, + plus any local changes that you have made but not yet committed.