On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 5:33 PM Philip Oakley <philipoak...@iee.org> wrote: > > Hi Ulrich, > On 14/05/2019 11:12, Duy Nguyen wrote: > >> Then I > >> foundhttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/10312521/how-to-fetch-all-git-branches > >> which handles the subject... > >> But still the most common solution there still looks like an ugly hack. > >> Thus I suggest to improve the man-pages (unless done already) > > Yeah I expected to see at least some definition of remote-tracking > > branches (vs local ones) but I didn't see one. Room for improvement. > Yes, the 'remote tracking branch' name [RTB] is very 'French' in its > backwardness (see NATO/OTAN).
The name is not that bad to me. > > It is a 'branch which tracks a remote', and it is has the 'last time I > looked' state of the branch that is on the remote server, which may > have, by now, advanced or changed. > > So you need to have the three distinct views in your head of 'My branch, > held locally', 'my copy of Their branch, from when I last looked', and > 'Their branch, on a remote server, in a state I haven't seen recently'. What I was looking for is this. I don't think we have something like this in the man pages (I only checked a few though) and not even sure where it should be if it should be added to the man pages, git-branch? git-remote? git-fetch? git-branch.txt might be the best place because this is still about branches. -- Duy
