Re: git-rev-tree

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Nov 8, 2005, 03:35 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511071934410.3247@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051108025755.GA22243@redhat.com>

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Dave Jones wrote:

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> (18:47:37:davej@hera:agp2)$ export KERNEL=master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/
> (18:47:43:davej@hera:agp2)$ git fetch $KERNEL/torvalds/linux-2.6 master:linus
> davej@master.kernel.org's password:
> Packing 35335 objects
> Unpacking 35335 objects
>  100% (35335/35335) done
> * committish: d27ba47e7e8c466c18983a1779d611f82d6a354f
>   branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git//torvalds/linux-2.6
> * refs/heads/linus: storing branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git//torvalds/linux-2.6
> 
> which looks ok, but then when I do the git log linus..HEAD, I get no output at all.

You've got the right "linus" commit.

However, are you aware that I did pull from you? If you don't have anything new, "no output at all" is the right thing.

> *click*, ahh wait, I didn't have a 'linus' branch before I did that fetch.
> For the above to work, do I need there to be a 'linus' branch before
> I start making changes ?  Or am I barking up the wrong tree ?

No, the above will have created the "linus" branch as needed.

		Linus