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Documentation: update glossary entry for "origin"

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Update glossary entry for "origin" to reflect fact that it normally now refers
to a remote repository, not a branch.

Also, warning not to work on remote-tracking branches is no longer necessary
since git doesn't allow that.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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J. Bruce Fields 2006-12-31 18:47:36 -05:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -188,11 +188,12 @@ octopus::
predator.
origin::
The default upstream tracking branch. Most projects have at
The default upstream repository. Most projects have at
least one upstream project which they track. By default
'origin' is used for that purpose. New upstream updates
will be fetched into this branch; you should never commit
to it yourself.
will be fetched into remote tracking branches named
origin/name-of-upstream-branch, which you can see using
"git branch -r".
pack::
A set of objects which have been compressed into one file (to save