predator.
origin::
- The default upstream tracking branch. Most projects have at
+ The default upstream repository. Most projects have at
least one upstream project which they track. By default
'origin' is used for that purpose. New upstream updates
- will be fetched into this branch; you should never commit
- to it yourself.
+ will be fetched into remote tracking branches named
+ origin/name-of-upstream-branch, which you can see using
+ "git branch -r".
pack::
A set of objects which have been compressed into one file (to save
local head, the push fails.
reachable::
- An object is reachable from a ref/commit/tree/tag, if there is a
- chain leading from the latter to the former.
+ All of the ancestors of a given commit are said to be reachable from
+ that commit. More generally, one object is reachable from another if
+ we can reach the one from the other by a chain that follows tags to
+ whatever they tag, commits to their parents or trees, and trees to the
+ trees or blobs that they contain.
rebase::
To clean a branch by starting from the head of the main line of
SHA1::
Synonym for object name.
+symref::
+ Symbolic reference: instead of containing the SHA1 id itself, it
+ is of the format 'ref: refs/some/thing' and when referenced, it
+ recursively dereferences to this reference. 'HEAD' is a prime
+ example of a symref. Symbolic references are manipulated with
+ the gitlink:git-symbolic-ref[1] command.
+
topic branch::
A regular git branch that is used by a developer to
identify a conceptual line of development. Since branches