From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Philip Oakley" Subject: Re: [PATCH] submodule documentation: Reorder introductory paragraphs Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 07:59:56 +0100 Organization: OPDS Message-ID: <6259B4241C4241D8A9104D3A49C36957@PhilipOakley> References: <1432163517-22785-1-git-send-email-sbeller@google.com><9AF4B2205E154BDA863E8CAAACAE0BDF@PhilipOakley> Reply-To: "Philip Oakley" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Junio C Hamano" , "Jonathan Nieder" , , "Petr Baudis" , "Heiko Voigt" To: "Stefan Beller" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 22 09:00:02 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yvgw5-0001Cm-0r for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 22 May 2015 09:00:01 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752080AbbEVG75 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 May 2015 02:59:57 -0400 Received: from out1.ip05ir2.opaltelecom.net ([62.24.128.241]:56555 "EHLO out1.ip05ir2.opaltelecom.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750918AbbEVG74 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 May 2015 02:59:56 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A2BzLAAC015VPKIJFlxcgxCBMoMfgy5twzAEBAKBPE0BAQEBAQEHAQEBAUEkG0EBAgKDVwUBAQEBAwgBARkVHgEBIQsCAwUCAQMOBwMCAgUhAgIUAQQaBgcDFAYTCAIBAgMBiB+uW4ZUnXGBIYoZhQWCby+BFgWSfXmhOIEEZkMcgVM9MYJHAQEB X-IPAS-Result: A2BzLAAC015VPKIJFlxcgxCBMoMfgy5twzAEBAKBPE0BAQEBAQEHAQEBAUEkG0EBAgKDVwUBAQEBAwgBARkVHgEBIQsCAwUCAQMOBwMCAgUhAgIUAQQaBgcDFAYTCAIBAgMBiB+uW4ZUnXGBIYoZhQWCby+BFgWSfXmhOIEEZkMcgVM9MYJHAQEB X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,474,1427756400"; d="scan'208";a="592842948" Received: from host-92-22-9-162.as13285.net (HELO PhilipOakley) ([92.22.9.162]) by out1.ip05ir2.opaltelecom.net with ESMTP; 22 May 2015 07:59:54 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: From: "Stefan Beller" > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Philip Oakley > wrote: >>> +Submodules are not to be confused with remotes, which are meant >>> +mainly for branches of the same project; >> >> >> This use of 'branches' didn't work for me. "remotes are meant mainly >> for >> branches of the same project" ? >> > > Maybe > > Submodules should not be confused with remote repositories, which > are > meant to track the same repository, just at another location; ... > > ? Though I'm not yet completely happy with that either. > I like that better. I was going to check what the git glossary said a remote was, but the commute to work beckons... Philip