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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Sergey Organov <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 19:36:20 +0300
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> From: Achim Gratz <address@hidden>
> >> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 13:14:40 +0100
> >> 
> >> 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.
> 
> Branch /in Git/ is just a special kind of label, and nothing else.

Well, now it's not only me you are up against ;-)

> The above is an abstraction built on top of Git's idea of
> branch. One can get a chain of commits from Git DAG starting at
> branch 'foo' and call the result "branch foo", if it suits
> him. Moreover, he can do this from any reference, even from SHA1. If
> I get the same chain of commits from branch 'foo' and from commit
> AF03276BC, is it the same branch? Is SHA1 a branch? Is Git tag a
> branch? Why?

As I already said elsewhere, you seem to have a serious problem
distinguishing the name of a thing from the thing itself.

But we are repeating ourselves.  It's time to stop.