Re: user manual wrong about remote branches?

From: Bradford Smith <bradford.carl.smith@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 11, 2007, 15:34 UTC
Message-ID: <f158199e0707110834sdaa29f2x65df784f4b3a6b5e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070711152816.GB4138@fieldses.org>

OK, the problem was the old version of git (1.4.4.2) I used to do the original clone. Cloning with the latest version gives me what the manual says I should get.

Thanks!

Bradford C. Smith

On 7/11/07, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:

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> On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 11:21:53AM -0400, Bradford Smith wrote:
> > I got the latest git source like this:
> >
> > git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
>
> What version of git did you do this first clone with?
>
> > Then I did:
> >
> > make prefix=/usr/local all doc
> > make prefix=/usr/local install install-doc
> >
> > So my current version is:
> >
> > git version 1.5.3.rc0.gbaa79
> >
> > Now, Documentation/user-manual.txt says I should be able to see the
> > remote branch I cloned from when I do this in the source directory.
> >
> > git branch -r
> >
> > However, this command gives no output at all.  What gives?  Does this
> > mean git-fetch and git-pull won't work properly to keep me up-to-date
> > with the main repository?
>
> The remote branch setup  is done on the initial clone.  So if you clone
> again with the newly installed version of git, you'll probably see
> what's expected.
>
> --b.
>