Julia Evans on Nostr: it's really funny to me that caching remote branches locally is a key core design ...
it's really funny to me that caching remote branches locally is a key core design principle of git, but git does not use the word "cache" or "caching" anywhere in the man pages for `git branch`, `git pull`, `git fetch`, or `git push` (instead it uses "remote tracking branch”)
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