From: Matthieu Imbert Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:07:11 GMT Subject: Re: remote branches Message-ID: <4D57AD4F.3030109@inria.fr> In-Reply-To: On 02/13/2011 10:17 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 08:42, Matthieu Imbert wrote: > >> $ git clone >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git >> linux-2.6.git >> >> - then i add a remote tracking branch: >> >> $ git remote add --tags drm-intel >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ickle/drm-intel.git > > You're adding a remote repository and tracking branches and tags from > it. > >> - Then i do git fetch or git fetch drm-intel, but nothing happens, and git >> branch -r still only show me origin/HEAD and origin/master, no drm-intel >> branches, though these branches do exist since i can see them with git >> remote -v show drm-intel > > You didn't add any remote tracking *branch*, you added a remote and > gave it the name "drm-intel". You could just as well do: > > git remote add --tags some-random-name > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ickle/drm-intel.git > > Also because you specified --tags you're only getting the tags on "git > fetch", if you don't do that then: > > $ git fetch some-random-name > remote: Counting objects: 567, done. > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (377/377), done. > remote: Total 488 (delta 371), reused 146 (delta 111) > Receiving objects: 100% (488/488), 91.42 KiB, done. > Resolving deltas: 100% (371/371), completed with 53 local objects. > From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ickle/drm-intel > * [new branch] drm-intel-fixes -> some-random-name/drm-intel-fixes > * [new branch] drm-intel-fixes-2 -> some-random-name/drm-intel-fixes-2 > * [new branch] drm-intel-next -> some-random-name/drm-intel-next > * [new branch] drm-intel-staging -> some-random-name/drm-intel-staging > > Which allows you to do: > > $ git checkout --track some-random-name/drm-intel-fixes > Branch drm-intel-fixes set up to track remote branch > drm-intel-fixes from some-random-name. > Switched to a new branch 'drm-intel-fixes' You're right, the faulty option was --tags. Trying without this i was able to fetch. Thanks, -- Matthieu