Re: [PATCH] Documentation: update git-pull.txt for clone's new default behavior

From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Jan 2, 2007, 00:57 UTC
Message-ID: <20070102005708.GA4253@thunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070102001044.GB32148@fieldses.org>

On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 07:10:44PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

> 
> The simplest way to understand the current behavior is probably to
> install the latest git, read the git-clone man page, clone a new
> repository, and take a look at it.

This should be mentioned in the 1.5 release notes --- that you won't see a lot of the power the new git unless you create a new repository using git-clone. For example, the man page for git-branch says that "git branch -r" will list remote branches won't print anything if the repository was originally cloned using an older version of git.

(I was using the version that shipped with Ubuntu Edgy before I recently upgraded to the bleeding edge "next" branch so I could try out the latest and greatest git features that was being discussed on the mailing list. :-)

						- Ted