Re: user manual question

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 6:42 AM, [off-list ref] wrote:

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

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Hi Sitaram!

Thanks for clearing that one up.

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

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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"

That's a nice,compact and effective  note. Thanks for sharing :-)
Consider pushing the full notes to GITHUB...would be _useful_ for all of
us..(like me)...


-- dm