Re: Git branching & pulling

From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date: May 19, 2007, 05:49 UTC
Message-ID: <20070519054936.GC2679@fieldses.org>
In-Reply-To: <d4cf37a60705182240s414243a6wae69d26f70f64dd5@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 10:40:17PM -0700, Wink Saville wrote:

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> Hello,
> 
> I'm having trouble understanding branching and pull.
> 
> Using git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
> I can create a branch off the master and do a pull:
> 
> wink@ic2d1:~/linux/linux-2.6$ git-checkout master
> Switched to branch "master"
> wink@ic2d1:~/linux/linux-2.6$ git-checkout -b test
> Switched to a new branch "test"
> wink@ic2d1:~/linux/linux-2.6$ git-pull
> Already up-to-date.
> 
> 
> 
> But from some reason using
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm.git
> the following happens
> 
> wink@ic2d1:~/linux/kvm-linux-2.6$ git-checkout master
> Already on branch "master"
> wink@ic2d1:~/linux/kvm-linux-2.6$ git-checkout -b test
> Switched to a new branch "test"
> wink@ic2d1:~/linux/kvm-linux-2.6$ git-pull
> Warning: No merge candidate found because value of config option
>         "branch.test.merge" does not match any remote branch fetched.
> No changes.

The differences you describe are almost certainly due to differences in the git version, not the cloned repository. Are you sure git wasn't ugpraded between the two tests?

--b.