Change incorrect uses of "remote branch" meaning "remote-tracking"

"remote branch" is a branch hosted in a remote repository, while
"remote-tracking branch" is a copy of such branch, hosted locally.
The distinction is subtle when the copy is up-to-date, but rather
fundamental to understand what "git fetch" and "git push" do.

This patch should fix all incorrect usages in Documentation/ directory.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index e4f16d8111f3c6c985ea781ce6b3fd877446c05b..6a6c0b5bd83774c9c92f5530f327019c322d3c2a 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -601,8 +601,9 @@ branch.autosetupmerge::
        this behavior can be chosen per-branch using the `--track`
        and `--no-track` options. The valid settings are: `false` -- no
        automatic setup is done; `true` -- automatic setup is done when the
-       starting point is a remote branch; `always` -- automatic setup is
-       done when the starting point is either a local branch or remote
+       starting point is a remote-tracking branch; `always` --
+       automatic setup is done when the starting point is either a
+       local branch or remote-tracking
        branch. This option defaults to true.
 
 branch.autosetuprebase::
@@ -613,7 +614,7 @@ branch.autosetuprebase::
        When `local`, rebase is set to true for tracked branches of
        other local branches.
        When `remote`, rebase is set to true for tracked branches of
-       remote branches.
+       remote-tracking branches.
        When `always`, rebase will be set to true for all tracking
        branches.
        See "branch.autosetupmerge" for details on how to set up a

diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index 1940256930d92c0679b95bb0cd41f24847828bd4..7f23c5682f5b1d000d51837addaef4fb110189d1 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ Note that this will create the new branch, but it will not switch the
 working tree to it; use "git checkout <newbranch>" to switch to the
 new branch.
 
-When a local branch is started off a remote branch, git sets up the
+When a local branch is started off a remote-tracking branch, git sets up the
 branch so that 'git pull' will appropriately merge from
-the remote branch. This behavior may be changed via the global
+the remote-tracking branch. This behavior may be changed via the global
 `branch.autosetupmerge` configuration flag. That setting can be
 overridden by using the `--track` and `--no-track` options.
 
@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ OPTIONS
        Move/rename a branch even if the new branch name already exists.
 
 --color[=<when>]::
-       Color branches to highlight current, local, and remote branches.
+       Color branches to highlight current, local, and
+       remote-tracking branches.
        The value must be always (the default), never, or auto.
 
 --no-color::
@@ -125,11 +126,11 @@ OPTIONS
        it directs `git pull` without arguments to pull from the
        upstream when the new branch is checked out.
 +
-This behavior is the default when the start point is a remote branch.
+This behavior is the default when the start point is a remote-tracking branch.
 Set the branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable to `false` if you
 want `git checkout` and `git branch` to always behave as if '--no-track'
 were given. Set it to `always` if you want this behavior when the
-start-point is either a local or remote branch.
+start-point is either a local or remote-tracking branch.
 
 --no-track::
        Do not set up "upstream" configuration, even if the

diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 22d36114df68963811a80a6c311a98b1a26d88d3..880763d391d18364485edc2e1e3dfc6f52243973 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ entries; instead, unmerged entries are ignored.
        "--track" in linkgit:git-branch[1] for details.
 +
 If no '-b' option is given, the name of the new branch will be
-derived from the remote branch.  If "remotes/" or "refs/remotes/"
+derived from the remote-tracking branch.  If "remotes/" or "refs/remotes/"
 is prefixed it is stripped away, and then the part up to the
 next slash (which would be the nickname of the remote) is removed.
 This would tell us to use "hack" as the local branch when branching

diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index ab7293351d283e7ee3a8275c534c3667d6b4d696..23203829cf35e9b65ef6b4a44786bce7300e3e5a 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
        Set up a mirror of the source repository.  This implies `--bare`.
        Compared to `--bare`, `--mirror` not only maps local branches of the
        source to local branches of the target, it maps all refs (including
-       remote branches, notes etc.) and sets up a refspec configuration such
+       remote-tracking branches, notes etc.) and sets up a refspec configuration such
        that all these refs are overwritten by a `git remote update` in the
        target repository.
 

diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index 7ef9d51577594ae6a27f71bae251d6ee2f52befa..02e015ad9c41e760b3ab37d2c5a9e4ef9ef0c4f5 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ OPTIONS
 --all::
        Instead of using only the annotated tags, use any ref
        found in `.git/refs/`.  This option enables matching
-       any known branch, remote branch, or lightweight tag.
+       any known branch, remote-tracking branch, or lightweight tag.
 
 --tags::
        Instead of using only the annotated tags, use any tag

diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index d7835ca39e8a842a83a8ece0cf044d06b74924b5..d70f3e04ffec209e1406d75c9051fd12f49b22f1 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -1724,7 +1724,8 @@ accomplish the above with just a simple
 $ git pull
 -------------------------------------------------
 
-More generally, a branch that is created from a remote branch will pull
+More generally, a branch that is created from a remote-tracking branch
+will pull
 by default from that branch.  See the descriptions of the
 branch.<name>.remote and branch.<name>.merge options in
 linkgit:git-config[1], and the discussion of the `--track` option in
@@ -2106,7 +2107,7 @@ $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
 $ cd work
 -------------------------------------------------
 
-Linus's tree will be stored in the remote branch named origin/master,
+Linus's tree will be stored in the remote-tracking branch named origin/master,
 and can be updated using linkgit:git-fetch[1]; you can track other
 public trees using linkgit:git-remote[1] to set up a "remote" and
 linkgit:git-fetch[1] to keep them up-to-date; see
@@ -2800,8 +2801,8 @@ Be aware that commits that the old version of example/master pointed at
 may be lost, as we saw in the previous section.
 
 [[remote-branch-configuration]]
-Configuring remote branches
----------------------------
+Configuring remote-tracking branches
+------------------------------------
 
 We saw above that "origin" is just a shortcut to refer to the
 repository that you originally cloned from.  This information is