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Re: git-gui clone differs from command line

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BRBarry Roberts <blr@robertsr.us>
Date
May 29, 2008, 02:59 UTC
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On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 19:23 -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
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> Barry Roberts <blr@robertsr.us> wrote:
> > After much mis-directed research, I finally figured out that cloning a 
> > repo (ssh://) with git-gui doesn't work exactly like 'git clone' from 
> > the command line.  The main difference is that 'git pull' doesn't work 
> > on master.  I get the error below.  Is that intentional, or are we doing 
> > something wrong?
> 
> Bug in git-gui.
> 
> git-gui's clone feature isn't implemented in terms of git-clone.
> Its implemented in terms of more primitive actions:
> 
> 	git init
> 	git remote add origin
> 	git fetch
> 	git fetch --tags
> 	git update-ref refs/heads/master origin/master
> 	git checkout
> 
> however it forgets to setup the branch configuration:
>  
> > If you often merge with the same branch, you may want to
> > configure the following variables in your configuration
> > file:
> > 
> >    branch.master.remote = <nickname>
> >    branch.master.merge = <remote-ref>
> >    remote.<nickname>.url = <url>
> >    remote.<nickname>.fetch = <refspec>
> > 
> > See git-config(1) for details.
> 
> Yea.  That author of git-gui should really check git-config(1)
> for detais.  *ducks and hides*
> 
> I'll try to fix it tonight or tomorrow.

No worries. I just e-mailed out a [branch "master"] section from .git/config from a cmd-line clone'd repo and all the Windows users are happy. Oddly, our Linux users never saw this ;-)

Thanks, Barry

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