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| author |  Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2006-01-10 16:19:11 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2006-01-10 16:19:11 -0800 |
| commit | 78ff5cf6b5595fa3ae291fa9ee3595b7c7cc624a (patch) | |
| tree | 834b1004515b01385aea48c11c2e52950423739f /Documentation | |
| parent | GIT-VERSION-GEN: detect dirty tree and mark the version accordingly. (diff) | |
| parent | glossary: explain "master" and "origin" (diff) | |
| download | tgif-78ff5cf6b5595fa3ae291fa9ee3595b7c7cc624a.tar.xz | |
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diff --git a/Documentation/glossary.txt b/Documentation/glossary.txt index 2331be5a71..02a9d9c18a 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary.txt @@ -111,6 +111,17 @@ branch:: a particular revision, which is called the branch head. The branch heads are stored in `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/`. +master:: + The default branch. Whenever you create a git repository, a branch + named "master" is created, and becomes the active branch. In most + cases, this contains the local development. + +origin:: + The default upstream branch. Most projects have one upstream + project which they track, and by default 'origin' is used for + that purpose. New updates from upstream will be fetched into + this branch; you should never commit to it yourself. + ref:: A 40-byte hex representation of a SHA1 pointing to a particular object. These may be stored in `$GIT_DIR/refs/`. |