From: Bradford Smith Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:34:26 GMT Subject: Re: user manual wrong about remote branches? Message-ID: 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 wrote: > 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. >