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Expand Up @@ -205,5 +205,5 @@ ca82a6dff817ec66f44342007202690a93763949
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Remote references differ from branches (`refs/heads` references) mainly in that they're considered read-only.
You can `git checkout` to one, but Git won't point HEAD at one, so you'll never update it with a `commit` command.
You can `git checkout` to one, but Git won't symolically reference HEAD to one, so you'll never update it with a `commit` command.
Git manages them as bookmarks to the last known state of where those branches were on those servers.