git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: Confused about tracking git master

From
Seth Falcon <sethfalcon@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 18, 2006, 19:47 UTC
Message-ID
<m2y7y2eke1.fsf@ziti.fhcrc.org>
In-Reply-To
<20060418185937.GD13672@vsectoor.geht-ab-wie-schnitzel.de>
Nicolas Vilz <niv@iaglans.de> writes:
Show 6 quoted lines
> You are trapped with the pu branch imho, like many others before *G* ... 
> simply do a 
>
> Pull: +refs/heads/pu:refs/heads/pu
>
> in your .git/remotes/origin file or remove that pu line...

Thank you! That seems to get me going again. But, isn't this going to trip up other newbies? I just tried a fresh git clone and the pu branch comes in...

It would improve one's first impressions to not have to edit .git/remotes/origin (although it is instructional) just to stay up to date with git.

Cheers,
+ seth
Previous: Nicolas Vilz
Message 3 of 3 in “Confused about tracking git master”
  1. Seth FalconApr 18, 2006
  2. Nicolas VilzApr 18, 2006
  3. Seth FalconApr 18, 2006

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.