Re: How do I track pu branch?

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Aug 16, 2005, 02:38 UTC
Message-ID: <7v4q9qr4gn.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f9050815185629e5c4b6@mail.gmail.com>

Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:

> Following an extenal repo, I am not getting all the heads. This is by
> design, AFAIK, and the question is how do I find what heads the repo
> offers and pull them in so I can call them by name?

I suspect the Subject: line and your question do not mesh well, but anyway..

	$ git ls-remote http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/
        2150cc99fe29fd81db1e9c5971e13bcb78373ebf	refs/heads/master
        ce1eb6614e4e8308585b75029ad0823389890eb9	refs/heads/pu
        14fb44880c1143ae0259842c808c036e78b516f6	refs/heads/rc
        0918385dbd9656cab0d1d81ba7453d49bbc16250	refs/tags/junio-gpg-pub
        d6602ec5194c87b0fc87103ca4d67251c76f233a	refs/tags/v0.99
        f25a265a342aed6041ab0cc484224d9ca54b6f41	refs/tags/v0.99.1
        c5db5456ae3b0873fc659c19fafdde22313cc441	refs/tags/v0.99.2
        7ceca275d047c90c0c7d5afb13ab97efdf51bd6e	refs/tags/v0.99.3
        b3e9704ecdf48869f635f0aa99ddfb513f885aff	refs/tags/v0.99.4

NOTE. When talking to http(s) URL, the server side needs to be prepared to support the dumb server protocol. That is, to have run git-update-server-info there whenever the repository is updated. Other transports do not have this restriction.

-jc