Re: user manual question

On 2008-12-29, Zorba [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi Sitaram!

Thanks for clearing that one up.

you're welcome; we've all done a bit of struggling I guess!

Also, I did wonder about HEAD and head. One can move, the other doesn't! 
(well, acually it does - head moves "forward", as the tip of the branch 
grows)

Here's an extract from my notes/internal talks on this:

    === basic concepts
      * a branch is "an active line of development"
      * //master//: default branch in a project, by convention
      * //head//: tip of a branch
      * a repo can track many branches, but the working tree is associated with
        only one branch at a time
      * //HEAD//: tip of the branch associated with the working tree; this is
        where commits go
        ** except when it's "detached"

Thanks for your other post/reply too - I will be getting back to you on that 
one

Glad to be of help.  I don't consider myself a guru, and am
constantly waiting for one of the real gurus to strike me
down with a thunderbolt for saying something stupid :-)