Re: Did I miss something? git-clone doesn't grab all branches????

From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Date: Mar 30, 2007, 17:03 UTC
Message-ID: <460D42FE.1080703@freescale.com>
In-Reply-To: <AF0367BA48C55940A43CCF08DF35553C0114148C@az33exm24.fsl.freescale.net>

Loeliger Jon-LOELIGER wrote:

> Timur,
> 
> You missed something. :-) You didn't read the Release
> Notes for 1.5 that I forwarded.

I didn't get that email. However, I did read the release notes for 1.5 on the web, and it didn't help. It's as if I'm on a different planet then everyone else who uses git, and so no one understands what I'm trying to do.

I hate branches.  I never use them.  I create a whole new tree for each commit that I work 
on.  So I like to have a clone of all of the main external repositories on my hard drive. 
  Then I just clone these local repos into other trees on my hard drive.

In the past, my clone of paulus/powerpc.git contained everything. Every time I did a git-pull, it would grab everything. Then I could do a local clone/checkout if I ever wanted to work on a branch (like for-2.6.22). I didn't have to know the names of the branches when I did git-clone.

Because of the changes to git-clone, this process got a whole lot more complicated. Now I need to issue multiple commands for each branch. Ugh.

 > As a start, do this:

> 
>     git branch -a

I think I figured it out, but I'm not sure it's working:

git-clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git powerpc.git cd powerpc.git git-checkout origin/for-2.6.22 git-checkout -b for-2.6.22

When I do this, git-branch -l shows:

* for-2.6.22
   master

So I think I'm okay.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale