That describes the way that Junio, the maintainer, keeps track of all the different contributors.
In this case "ai" is someone with the initials A I, and her/his contribution is held in that part of the refs directory. Thus if I make a contribution it appears under "po/my_topic". http://git-blame.blogspot.co.uk/p/git-public-repositories.html leads to https://github.com/gitster/git/ where you can see all the current working examples. Philip ----- Original Message ----- From: Chuck Irvine To: git-users@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2014 5:59 PM Subject: [git-users] What does "ai/topic_in_next" mean? In https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitworkflows.html appears the snippet below. Sorry, I can’t figure out what “ai/topic_in_next*” means, especially the “ai/” part. A little help please…..? Branch management for next and pu after a feature release After a feature release, the integration branch next may optionally be rewound and rebuilt from the tip of master using the surviving topics on next: Recipe: Rewind and rebuild next git checkout next git reset --hard master git merge ai/topic_in_next1 git merge ai/topic_in_next2 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
