Re: [git-users] HOW TO READ THE RESULT OF GIT FETCH
On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 06:15:54PM +0300, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote:
[...]
> > 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.
To try to provide more insight on this - a reference (usually
abbreviated to just "ref") can be used anywhere one would want to refer
to a commit.
For instance, the special ref FETCH_HEAD is updated by the `git fetch`
command, and can be used, for example, to merge the just fetched changes
into the current branch.
Not surprisingly, that's basically what `git pull` does behind the
scenes: it runs `git fetch` and then `git merge FETCH_HEAD`.
The FETCH_HEAD ref is "more special" than the rest of the special refs
in that it can hold more than one record at a time - because it's
possible to fetch multiple branches at the same time.
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Re: [git-users] HOW TO READ THE RESULT OF GIT FETCH
On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 01:34:59PM +, 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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Re: [git-users] HOW TO READ THE RESULT OF GIT FETCH
Hi,
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.
The bada8af..6d2389b is the range of commits that have been fetched, and
that they are now on the remote tracking branch 'origin/develop' (your
copy of the remote's branch)
Philip
On 28/02/2019 10:21, gitphobia wrote:
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.
thank you
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[git-users] HOW TO READ THE RESULT OF GIT FETCH
when I fetched the particular branch named "develop" from remote repository the console outputs the result below * branchdevelop-> 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. thank you -- 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.
