On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Namita Iyer wrote: > On Wednesday 24 December 2008 14:39:28 Saifi Khan wrote: > > Hi Namita: > > > > i was trying to clone the uemacs git repository from > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/editors/uemacs/uemacs.git > > > > Noticed that as my repository was populated, there were bunch of > > lines that had 'walk' prefix before the hashes. > > > > Please see the complete log 'with highlighted lines' at > > http://twincling.pastebin.com/m17a39af4 > > > > What is the interpretation of 'walk' in this case ? > > and how 'got' relates to it ? > > > > > > thanks > > Saifi. > > > > Hi Saifi, > > The 'got' denotes the commits that it gets/merges into your > repository. > > Not sure what the 'walk' means. Probably it means 'walk over' i.e. not > merge the change. >
Thanks Namita. So the multiple hashes that git 'walks' over are the changes and the 'got' hash is the one that it merged into my repository. i was still trying to think more like svn/cvs'ish here. thanks Saifi.
