{"id":1199419,"date":"2023-11-02T10:56:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T14:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1199419"},"modified":"2023-11-02T10:56:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T14:56:35","slug":"evans-confusing-git-terminology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1199419","title":{"rendered":"Evans: Confusing git terminology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julia Evans has posted <a href=\"https:\/\/jvns.ca\/blog\/2023\/11\/01\/confusing-git-terminology\/\">a list of<br \/>\nconfusing Git terms and behavior<\/a> along with explanations of what is<br \/>\nactually going on.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq\"><p>\n<b>\u201cYour branch is up to date with \u2018origin\/main\u2019\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\nThis message seems straightforward \u2013 it\u2019s saying that your main branch is<br \/>\nup to date with the origin!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut it\u2019s actually a little misleading. You might think that this means that<br \/>\nyour main branch is up to date. It doesn\u2019t. What it actually means is \u2013 if<br \/>\nyou last ran git fetch or git pull 5 days ago, then your main branch is up<br \/>\nto date with all the changes as of 5 days ago.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo if you don\u2019t realize that, it can give you a false sense of security.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: LWN.net &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/949833\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Evans: Confusing git terminology<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julia Evans has posted a list of confusing Git terms and behavior along with explanations of what is actually going on. \u201cYour branch is up to date with \u2018origin\/main\u2019\u201d This message seems straightforward \u2013 it\u2019s saying that your main branch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1199419\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-1199419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1199419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1199419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1199419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1199419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}