# pulling git -- version confusion

7 messages from 2009-11-09 to 2009-11-09. Participants: Rustom Mody, Sverre Rabbelier, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/21542

## Rustom Mody, 2009-11-09 06:14

Subject: pulling git -- version confusion
Message-ID: <f46c52560911082214x81ae8beya139a8bcb3cbcf2a@mail.gmail.com>
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```
I did a git pull today

When I compile it
git  --version gives
git version 1.6.3.3.334.g916e1

Whereas latest stable shown on http://git-scm.com/
is 1.6.5.2.


Note:

git branch shows a star before master

git tag contains v1.6.5.2 as well as v1.6.3.3

When I checkout branch next
git version becomes  1.6.0.rc1.194.g9e4e

Can someone explain whats happening or am I missing something basic?

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## Sverre Rabbelier, 2009-11-09 06:37

Subject: Re: pulling git -- version confusion
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Heya,

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 07:14, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I checkout branch next
> git version becomes  1.6.0.rc1.194.g9e4e

Try either:
$ git checkout master
$ git reset --hard origin/master

or:
$ git checkout next
$ git reset --hard origin/next

Followed by:
$ make
$ ./git --version

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

```

## Rustom Mody, 2009-11-09 07:45

Subject: Re: pulling git -- version confusion
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On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:
> Heya,
>
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 07:14, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
>> When I checkout branch next
>> git version becomes  1.6.0.rc1.194.g9e4e
>
> Try either:
> $ git checkout master
> $ git reset --hard origin/master

Gives me
fatal: ambiguous argument 'origin/master': unknown revision or path
not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions

>
> or:
> $ git checkout next
> $ git reset --hard origin/next

Likewise here
>
> Followed by:
> $ make
> $ ./git --version
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Sverre Rabbelier
>

```

## Sverre Rabbelier, 2009-11-09 07:51

Subject: Re: pulling git -- version confusion
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e0911082351o326b205aic205552faae4e4da@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/fabb9a1e0911082351o326b205aic205552faae4e4da%40mail.gmail.com
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Heya,

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 08:45, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> Gives me
> fatal: ambiguous argument 'origin/master': unknown revision or path
> not in the working tree.
> Use '--' to separate paths from revisions

Well, as what remote do you have upstream configured?

What is the output of
$ git config -l

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

```

## Rustom Mody, 2009-11-09 13:24

Subject: Re: pulling git -- version confusion
Message-ID: <f46c52560911090524l51140858sdde29d76e2cfed49@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/f46c52560911090524l51140858sdde29d76e2cfed49%40mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 08:45, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Gives me
>> fatal: ambiguous argument 'origin/master': unknown revision or path
>> not in the working tree.
>> Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
>
> Well, as what remote do you have upstream configured?
>
> What is the output of
> $ git config -l

gives me

core.safecrlf=true
user.email=<my email>
user.name=<my name>
core.repositoryformatversion=0
core.filemode=true
gui.geometry=885x450+0+27 207 192

So theres no remote?
But .git/remotes/origin has

URL: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
Pull: refs/heads/master:refs/heads/origin
Pull: refs/heads/maint:refs/heads/maint
Pull: refs/heads/next:refs/heads/next
Pull: refs/heads/html:refs/heads/html
Pull: refs/heads/pu:refs/heads/pu
Pull: refs/heads/todo:refs/heads/todo
Pull: refs/heads/man:refs/heads/man

Also [I just tried this] if I make a fresh repo directly and then do a git pull
it gives a fatal: where do you want to fetch from

But with the git repo pull (seems to be) pulling all sorts of stuff
and not erroring out.

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## Sverre Rabbelier, 2009-11-09 19:16

Subject: Re: pulling git -- version confusion
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e0911091116p4c869cefx79cb1354ed464507@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/fabb9a1e0911091116p4c869cefx79cb1354ed464507%40mail.gmail.com
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Heya,

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 14:24, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> So theres no remote?
> But .git/remotes/origin has

Ick, how about switching to:
$ git remote add origin"git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git"

And then you can do what I said earlier?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

```

## Junio C Hamano, 2009-11-09 21:58

Subject: Re: pulling git -- version confusion
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Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 08:45, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Gives me
>>> fatal: ambiguous argument 'origin/master': unknown revision or path
>>> not in the working tree.
>>> Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
>>
>> Well, as what remote do you have upstream configured?
>>
>> What is the output of
>> $ git config -l
>
> gives me
>
> core.safecrlf=true
> user.email=<my email>
> user.name=<my name>
> core.repositoryformatversion=0
> core.filemode=true
> gui.geometry=885x450+0+27 207 192
>
> So theres no remote?
> But .git/remotes/origin has
>
> URL: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
> Pull: refs/heads/master:refs/heads/origin
> Pull: refs/heads/maint:refs/heads/maint
> Pull: refs/heads/next:refs/heads/next
> Pull: refs/heads/html:refs/heads/html
> Pull: refs/heads/pu:refs/heads/pu
> Pull: refs/heads/todo:refs/heads/todo
> Pull: refs/heads/man:refs/heads/man

That's a layout that was default before 1.5.0, I think.  3 years is an eon
in git timescale.

People giving advice based on modern git experience would say things like
"origin/master", but in your layout that ref that keeps track of where the
'master' branch at the remote repository is is not called 'origin/master',
but simply 'origin'.

So instead of

> Try either:
> $ git checkout master
> $ git reset --hard origin/master

that Sverre gave you, in your repository you would do:

    $ git checkout master
    $ git reset --hard origin

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