Re: [FIXED PATCH] Make rebase save ORIG_HEAD if changing current branch

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

+HEAD names the commit your changes in the working tree is based on.

How about:

"HEAD names the commit your working tree is based on. This is the tip
of the checked out branch, unless HEAD is detached. (HEAD is said to
be detached if a commit is checked out which is not the tip of any
branch.)"

+FETCH_HEAD records the branch you fetched from a remote repository
+with your last 'git-fetch' invocation.

consistency w/above: s/records/names/

+ORIG_HEAD is created by commands that moves your HEAD in a drastic
+way, to record the position of the HEAD before their operation, so that
+you can change the tip of the branch back to the state before you ran
+them easily.

s/moves/move/; s/can change/can easily change/; s/them easily./them./;

But maybe this reads better:

ORIG_HEAD is created by commands that move HEAD in a drastic way to
record the position of HEAD before their operation, so that the branch
can easily be reset back to its prior state.

+MERGE_HEAD records the commit(s) you are merging into your branch
+when you run 'git-merge'.

So it's the "<remote>" arg or args mentioned in the git-merge man page?

j.