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

[Teemu Likonen]

Eli Zaretskii [2014-11-19 18:20:43 +02:00] wrote:

>> 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.

I don't know anymore if this is some academic concept talk or concrete
talk but this helped me a few years ago:

    $ ls -l .git/refs/heads/
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dtw dtw 41 2014-11-19 19:23 emacs-24
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dtw dtw 41 2014-11-16 21:16 master

    $ cat .git/refs/heads/master 
    7261b4d9b2f35c3e520b488a8ba3cfde30f84a24

That's what branches are in Git. But maybe you are upto something else.

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