Re: understanding how remote tracking works

Michael Witten wrote:

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 20:53, Geoff Russell [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

I'm working my way through Jon Loeliger's Git book and it's
confusing when the actual behaviour differs from that in the book

This probably results from the git culture's conflation (or should I
say confusion?) of low-level and high-level representations and
commands.

I guess I’ll bite.  What does that mean?  We have “show-ref” and
“update-ref” precisely as low-level commands that are independent
of representation.

Probably the more relevant question: what do you want to do about it?