Exactly.
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 08:26, Pito Salas wrote:
> So, there's one HEAD per repository, not one per branch, correct?
>
> -- Pito
>
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Jacob Helwig wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 07:22, Pito Salas wrote:
>>> Dilip
>>>
>>> Thanks, that clears up a lot.
So, there's one HEAD per repository, not one per branch, correct?
-- Pito
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Jacob Helwig wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 07:22, Pito Salas wrote:
>> Dilip
>>
>> Thanks, that clears up a lot.
>>
>>>
>>> - Note this difference: a **head** (lowercase) refers to any
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 07:22, Pito Salas wrote:
> Dilip
>
> Thanks, that clears up a lot.
>
>>
>> - Note this difference: a **head** (lowercase) refers to any one of the
>> *named* heads (master, stable, dust) in the repository; **HEAD** (uppercase)
>> refers exclusively to the currently *activ
Dilip
Thanks, that clears up a lot.
>
> - Note this difference: a **head** (lowercase) refers to any one of the
> *named* heads (master, stable, dust) in the repository; **HEAD** (uppercase)
> refers exclusively to the currently *active head*. This distinction is used
> frequently in Git docum
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Pito Salas wrote:
> What's the exact meaning of 'HEAD' ? Is it a tag or a branch, and what does
> it do/mean? When does one use it? And what might it mean when my remote repo
> says that there are two 'HEAD's, on different branches?
- *head* is a named reference
