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Documentation: update glossary entry for "origin"
authorJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:47:36 +0000 (18:47 -0500)
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Mon, 1 Jan 2007 00:37:20 +0000 (16:37 -0800)
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>
Documentation/glossary.txt

index 894883d7b60c4c79263323fc007406c4f3720bac..7c1a6592c112a76c23c2833537a13f40337c261c 100644 (file)
@@ -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