Mark Jason Dominus's Git remote branches and Git's missing terminology ( via ) is about what it sounds like. This is an issue of some interest to me, since I flailed around in the same general terminology swamp in a couple of recent entries . Dominus explains all of this nicely, with diagrams, and it helped reinforce things in my mind (and reassure me that I more or less understood what was going on).

He followed this up with Git's rejected push error , which covers a frequent ' git push ' issue with the same thoroughness as his first article. I more or less knew this stuff, but again I found it useful to read through his explanation to make sure I actually knew as much as I thought I did.