Re: [PATCH] RelNotes: Spelling & grammar fixes.

Junio C Hamano wrote:

Marc Branchaud [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

  * "git branch -v -v" (and "git status") did not distinguish among a
-   branch that does not build on any other branch, a branch that is in
-   sync with the branch it builds on, and a branch that is configured
-   to build on some other branch that no longer exists.
+   branch that is not tracking any other branch, a branch that is in
+   sync with the branch it is tracking, and a branch that is tracking
+   some other branch that no longer exists.

People use the verb "track" to mean too many different things, and
the original deliberately tried to avoid use of that word.

Specifically, we try to limit the use of "track" to mean "to keep a
copy of what we observed from the remote" as in "remote-tracking
branch remotes/origin/master is used to track the 'master' branch at
your 'origin'", which is very different from "your 'master' branch
builds on your upstream's 'master'".

How about something like the following, in the same spirit as --track
giving way to --set-upstream-to)?

	* "git branch -v -v" and "git status" did not distinguish among a
	  branch that does not have a corresponding upstream branch, a
	  branch that is in sync with its upstream, and a branch whose
	  upstream no longer exists.