Remote Repositories and Synchronization - Git Recipes - page 349

Figure 10-13 . Both shared-repo and sarahs-repo right after cloning
We are watching this situation from Sarah's perspective. Thus sarahs-repo is
the local repository, and shared-repo is the remote repository, as labeled in Figure
10-13 . The figure presents three types of branches: remote branch, local tracking
branch, and remote tracking branch. Sarah's repository doesn't contain any ordinary
local branches. When Sarah clones the repository, the $ git clone command auto-
matically creates two local branches for her: master and origin/master . The
first is a local tracking branch; the second is a remote tracking branch. You can verify
this with the $ git branch -a -vv command. The output would contain two im-
portant lines:
* master 36c7205 [origin/master] a3
remotes/origin/master 36c7205 a3
The first line says that the master is a local tracking branch for origin/mas-
ter branch. The second line says that origin/master is a remote branch.
When Sarah commits with $ git simple-commit b1 b2 she moves her
master branch (i.e., local tracking branch) forward. The state of the branches after $
git simple-commit b1 b2 is shown in Figure 10-14 .