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

Ron Garret [off-list ref] writes:

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Also it would be nicer (just a personal preference) if a picture that
forks only one branch forks it upwards, like this:

             o---o
            /    
    ---o---o---o

not downwards, like this:

    ---o---o---o
            \
             o---o

Just out of curiosity, why does this matter to you?

Imagine you pick up the whole assembly and let it fall (gravity works from
top to bottom of the sheet of paper it is printed on, not from above down
to the face of paper it is printed on)?  Which one looks more stable and
would land on the floor as-is?

The top one, of course.  It sits better when printed, and especially so
when it is presented as an illustration that comes before a paragraph,
which is a more-or-less rectangular-looking block of text; at least it
looks that way to me.

Didn't I say it is just a "personal preference"?  ;-)