On 2011-04-27 20:44, ulrik.mikaels...@gmail.com wrote:
Den, skrevJacob Carlborg <d...@me.com>:
> Yeah, that's correct. But in this case I think he actually was
referring to the latest commit. I'm pretty sure I've heard the latest
commit in SVN be referred to as "trunk".
I'm too curious for my own good, so I had to waste some time to investigate.
It seems HEAD is a meta-reference, pointing to some other reference
(such as some other branch or a specific commit). For a full repository,
it's also the base of the current checkout. (Or really, the index, for
anyone else in my currently nit-picking mood).
For a bare repository (I.E. without a working-copy such as you would
find on GitHub), it seems to be whatever HEAD was in the repository that
was initially cloned to create the bare repository.
So, in the case assumed here, HEAD is the same thing as master, but it
can really be anything (including the initial zero-commit). So "master",
is always the last commit in the "master" branch, while HEAD can be
anything.
Ok, I give up. But from a practical point of view and in most of the
cases HEAD will be the latest commit in the current branch.
I think "master" is always a better translation of "trunk". :)
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/Jacob Carlborg
