Re: Obscure error/warning/information message from git pull

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Teemu Likonen writes:

 > No. "A" could have been committed on a private branch called
 > "asdfasdfasdf" by some unknown person. Then it may have been forget
 > various ways into that project's commit DAG.

True enough.

 > Branches are not places.

But they are, in both Mercurial and Bazaar branches that are "named by
the directory they are stored in".

 > They just labels (sometimes temporary) that point to a
 > commit. Nothing more.

That's not true in Mercurial named branches.  I believe it's true of
both Mercurial and Bazaar branches that are "named by the directory
they are stored in", as well.

 > Commit operation in Git is like PUSH:

But Alan (and Eli) are *specifically* talking about their *abstract*
concepts of branch, independent of implementation.