From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:20:22 +0000 (-0800) Subject: GIT 1.0.9 X-Git-Tag: v1.0.9^0 X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/0de62e598552765eb674b72bbaf55b2e2933f617?hp=8fc11b5aa98540f7caab87e22e5aae63512893a2 GIT 1.0.9 --- diff --git a/Documentation/glossary.txt b/Documentation/glossary.txt index 2331be5a71..02a9d9c18a 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary.txt @@ -111,6 +111,17 @@ branch:: a particular revision, which is called the branch head. The branch heads are stored in `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/`. +master:: + The default branch. Whenever you create a git repository, a branch + named "master" is created, and becomes the active branch. In most + cases, this contains the local development. + +origin:: + The default upstream branch. Most projects have one upstream + project which they track, and by default 'origin' is used for + that purpose. New updates from upstream will be fetched into + this branch; you should never commit to it yourself. + ref:: A 40-byte hex representation of a SHA1 pointing to a particular object. These may be stored in `$GIT_DIR/refs/`.