Re: Stash

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

Steinar Bang wrote:

Good explanation, but …
> "origin/master" and "master" are actually files:
>   .git/refs/heads/master
>   .git/refs/remotes/origin/master
>
> Inside the files is a sha1 hash uniquely defining a commit.

They are more than that. There is also behaviour associated with these 
branches found in the configuration:

; git config --get-regexp '^branch.master'
branch.master.remote origin
branch.master.merge refs/heads/master
; git config --get-regexp '^remote.origin'
remote.origin.url git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git
remote.origin.fetch +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
;

(Or just look into .git/config.)

I suppose that you can argue that this is external to the branches 
themselves, but really, the merging and fetching behaviours are central 
to how these branches work.

– Harald