From: Hallvard Breien Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 14:21:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Newbie grief
Message-ID: <85ff02fc05e4a52ee0b1f1922f774a8d@ulrik.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <4FA05E9F.9090709@palm.com>

 On Tue, 01 May 2012 15:07:27 -0700, Rich Pixley wrote:
> On 5/1/12 14:39 , Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>> "git fetch" updates the remote tracking branches, which you commonly
>> reference preceded by "origin".  So "git fetch" DOES NOT TOUCH 
>> "master".
>> It touches only "origin/master".
>
> Yes.  I understand that that is how git typically works in a non-bare
> repository.

 And in a bare repository:

     git init --bare foo.git
     cd              foo.git
     git remote add bar ../bar.git
     git fetch      bar
         --> adds bar/master etc.

 For some reason, 'git clone --bare' does not treat the cloned
 repository the same way - it just copies it under refs/heads/
 instead of refs/remotes/, without even adding it as a remote.

-- 
 Hallvard