From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 23:23:24 GMT
Subject: Re: git-gui clone differs from command line
Message-ID: <20080528232324.GM30245@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <483D7884.2050407@robertsr.us>

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.

-- 
Shawn.