Re: git-pull can't be used without URL - Has worked before

For v1.5.0, git-clone sets up a remote repository so that you can look at what's going on remotely like this:

  git log origin/next

To create your branch, you have to do something like

  git-checkout -b my-branch origin/next
  git-config add branch.my-branch.remote origin
  git-config add branch.my-branch.merge refs/heads/next

Note that the branch in the last command is the remote branch name not the local name.

<shameless-advertisement-of-my-patches> With the current git "master" branch, you are able to do something like

  git-checkout --track -b my-branch origin/next

and git-pull (with no arguments) will automatically pull from whatever branch you specified upon branch creation. --track also works with local branches, so you can have your topic branches track the tip of your current development branch, for example. </shameless-advertisement-of-my-patches>

Paolo