Re: user manual wrong about remote branches?

From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date: Jul 11, 2007, 15:28 UTC
Message-ID: <20070711152816.GB4138@fieldses.org>
In-Reply-To: <f158199e0707110821k50a55e66p8fb0b92a3dec9ed2@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 11:21:53AM -0400, Bradford Smith wrote:

> I got the latest git source like this:
>
> git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git

What version of git did you do this first clone with?

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> Then I did:
>
> make prefix=/usr/local all doc
> make prefix=/usr/local install install-doc
>
> So my current version is:
>
> git version 1.5.3.rc0.gbaa79
>
> Now, Documentation/user-manual.txt says I should be able to see the
> remote branch I cloned from when I do this in the source directory.
>
> git branch -r
>
> However, this command gives no output at all.  What gives?  Does this
> mean git-fetch and git-pull won't work properly to keep me up-to-date
> with the main repository?

The remote branch setup is done on the initial clone. So if you clone again with the newly installed version of git, you'll probably see what's expected.

--b.