On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 01:34:59PM +0000, Philip Oakley wrote:
(Reversed order of quoted blocks.)
>> when I fetched the particular branch named "develop" from remote
>> repository
>>
>> the console outputs the result below
>>
>> * branch develop -> FETCH_HEAD
>> bada8af..6d2389b develop -> origin/develop
>>
>> I barely understood "bada8af" is the hash name of develop's HEAD and
>> "6d2389b" is the name of tracking branch's HEAD hash name.
>> But i do not know what is the asterisk of the first line?
>> and what is "->" mean in "develop -> FETCH_HEAD"
>> because develop branch is not merged to FETCH_HEAD.
> The asterisk ('*') is a marker to indicate the current branch.
>
> The '->' symbolised 'has moved to', so we have that the special variable
> FETCH_HEAD now hold the hash name of the develop branch.
I would still say it's not a "special variable" but rather a "special
reference" - to stay within the official Git lingo.
To the OP: a reference in Git is any symbolic name which refers to
something. Branches and tags are references, and so are special ones -
such as HEAD, ORIG_HEAD, FETCH_HEAD, MERGE_HEAD and so on.
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