{"thread":{"id":"8986","subject":"user manual wrong about remote branches?","startedAt":"2007-07-11T15:21:53Z","lastAt":"2007-07-11T15:34:26Z","messageCount":3,"participants":["Bradford Smith","J. Bruce Fields"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"47040","messageId":"f158199e0707110821k50a55e66p8fb0b92a3dec9ed2@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"8986","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"user manual wrong about remote branches?","fromName":"Bradford Smith","fromEmail":"bradford.carl.smith@gmail.com","sentAt":"2007-07-11T15:21:53Z","receivedAt":"2007-07-11T15:21:53Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"bradford.carl.smith@gmail.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/699930ad8ca562e38156ee60270b2fee830cc0cb5d94c2f70c6db4a705723c54?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"I got the latest git source like this:\n\ngit clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git\n\nThen I did:\n\nmake prefix=/usr/local all doc\nmake prefix=/usr/local install install-doc\n\nSo my current version is:\n\ngit version 1.5.3.rc0.gbaa79\n\nNow, Documentation/user-manual.txt says I should be able to see the\nremote branch I cloned from when I do this in the source directory.\n\ngit branch -r\n\nHowever, this command gives no output at all.  What gives?  Does this\nmean git-fetch and git-pull won't work properly to keep me up-to-date\nwith the main repository?\n\nThanks,\n\nBradford C. Smith\n"},{"id":"47041","messageId":"20070711152816.GB4138@fieldses.org","threadId":"8986","inReplyTo":"f158199e0707110821k50a55e66p8fb0b92a3dec9ed2@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: user manual wrong about remote branches?","fromName":"J. Bruce Fields","fromEmail":"bfields@fieldses.org","sentAt":"2007-07-11T15:28:16Z","receivedAt":"2007-07-11T15:28:16Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"bfields@citi.umich.edu","avatar":null},"body":"On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 11:21:53AM -0400, Bradford Smith wrote:\n> I got the latest git source like this:\n>\n> git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git\n\nWhat version of git did you do this first clone with?\n\n> Then I did:\n>\n> make prefix=/usr/local all doc\n> make prefix=/usr/local install install-doc\n>\n> So my current version is:\n>\n> git version 1.5.3.rc0.gbaa79\n>\n> Now, Documentation/user-manual.txt says I should be able to see the\n> remote branch I cloned from when I do this in the source directory.\n>\n> git branch -r\n>\n> However, this command gives no output at all.  What gives?  Does this\n> mean git-fetch and git-pull won't work properly to keep me up-to-date\n> with the main repository?\n\nThe remote branch setup  is done on the initial clone.  So if you clone\nagain with the newly installed version of git, you'll probably see\nwhat's expected.\n\n--b.\n"},{"id":"47043","messageId":"f158199e0707110834sdaa29f2x65df784f4b3a6b5e@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"8986","inReplyTo":"20070711152816.GB4138@fieldses.org","subject":"Re: user manual wrong about remote branches?","fromName":"Bradford Smith","fromEmail":"bradford.carl.smith@gmail.com","sentAt":"2007-07-11T15:34:26Z","receivedAt":"2007-07-11T15:34:26Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"bradford.carl.smith@gmail.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/699930ad8ca562e38156ee60270b2fee830cc0cb5d94c2f70c6db4a705723c54?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"OK, the problem was the old version of git (1.4.4.2) I used to do the\noriginal clone.  Cloning with the latest version gives me what the\nmanual says I should get.\n\nThanks!\n\nBradford C. Smith\n\nOn 7/11/07, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:\n> On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 11:21:53AM -0400, Bradford Smith wrote:\n> > I got the latest git source like this:\n> >\n> > git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git\n>\n> What version of git did you do this first clone with?\n>\n> > Then I did:\n> >\n> > make prefix=/usr/local all doc\n> > make prefix=/usr/local install install-doc\n> >\n> > So my current version is:\n> >\n> > git version 1.5.3.rc0.gbaa79\n> >\n> > Now, Documentation/user-manual.txt says I should be able to see the\n> > remote branch I cloned from when I do this in the source directory.\n> >\n> > git branch -r\n> >\n> > However, this command gives no output at all.  What gives?  Does this\n> > mean git-fetch and git-pull won't work properly to keep me up-to-date\n> > with the main repository?\n>\n> The remote branch setup  is done on the initial clone.  So if you clone\n> again with the newly installed version of git, you'll probably see\n> what's expected.\n>\n> --b.\n>\n"}]}