2019-09-04

Eclipse Git Push, refs/heads/master & refs/remotes/origin/master ?



Push Ref Specifications





Reference URL:
Is “refs/heads/master” same as “refs/remotes/origin/master” in Git?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7541040/is-refs-heads-master-same-as-refs-remotes-origin-master-in-git



They are two different symbolic names that can point to different things. refs/heads/master is a branch in your working copy named master. Frequently that is a tracking branch of refs/remotes/origin/master because origin is the default name for the remote created by git clone and its primary branch is usually also named master.
You can see the difference between them with git rev-list refs/heads/master..refs/remotes/origin/master which will be empty if they are the same and will otherwise list the commits between them.






Found this configuration in eclipse:








Not sure what the different of:
refs/heads/master - refs/remotes/origin/master
vs
+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

is * = wildcard?




https://stackoverflow.com/a/7546794/676104

The key difference to understand is that the branches under refs/heads/ are branches that, when you have one checked out, you can advance by creating new commits. Those under refs/remotes/, however, are so-called "remote-tracking branches" - these refs just point to the commit that a remote repository was at the last time you did a git fetch <name-of-remote>, or a successful git push to the corresponding branch in that remote repository. (I wrote a blog post that talks about this difference at some length here.)


https://longair.net/blog/2009/04/16/git-fetch-and-merge/

GIT: FETCH AND MERGE, DON’T PULL







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