From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:33:43 GMT
Subject: Re: git-branch and git-remotes confusion
Message-ID: <46a038f90704100533l7d795e79vd6245445c7e74c67@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070410122516.GA27388@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On 4/11/07, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> Your arguments to git-branch are backwards. It should be:
>
>   git-branch --track my18-olpc origin/mdl18-olpc
>
> Also note that --track didn't show up until 1.5.1.  Other than that, it
> should do what you expect (check out your .git/config before and after
> to see the impact of --track).

thanks. And I'm reading the doco for 1.5.latest and it turns out I'm
using 1.5.0.5 so that won't work either.

hmmm. actually, I'm having another problem that is a bit more serious:
cloning via http doesn't create a remotes/origin and doesn't perform
the initial checkout.

will post separately about this...



martin