Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!?

Jay Soffian [off-list ref] writes:

So that was a really long explanation, but I hope it clears things up.
I think the disconnect between you and Junio is that you're thinking
of branches in the DAG sense of the word, while Junio is talking about
them in the context of git.

Yeah, in short, a "branch" is a point, not a line (or lines) of
development that leads to a point, as I said in the beginning.