Re: Obscure error/warning/information message from git pull

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Eli Zaretskii writes:
 > > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>

 > > True, but in practice there are *no* VCSes that have "active lines of
 > > development".
 > 
 > I believe you.  But humans certainly do have that notion, at least
 > some people sometimes do.

Yes, but what's your difficulty with git branches, then?  Just say no
to "branch ref is a whole branch".  As Achim already wrote, a branch
is a branch ref plus what's reachable from that ref by following the
ref and commit parents.