Re: how do I create a branch and push it so several developers can share work?
Thanks Jacob. I thought I had done it right, but when I cloned and did not get what I expected at first, I was a bit concerned. Thanks.
Related question, is there a way to have fullers show up automatically as a local branch for developers simply through a `git clone`?
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:31:30 -0400, Robert Buck wrote:
>>
>> We just switched over to git and also use gitolite.
>>
>> To create a new branch and push it so a team of developers can
>> collaborate on that branch I performed the following commands:
>>
>> Listed available tags:
>> git fetch --tags
>>
>> Listed available branches, which for me only showed one, master:
>> git branch
>>
>> Created the branch off the tag:
>> git branch fullers tagduvel
>>
>> Checked out the branch to verify the contents:
>> git checkout fullers
>> ...
>>
>> Push the branch to the remote repository:
>> git push origin fullers
>>
>> Now, when I clone the repository and list the branches I only see
>> 'master'. If I list the branches with the -a option I see something I
>> did not anticipate:
>> git branch -a
>> * master
>> remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
>> remotes/origin/duvel
>> remotes/origin/fullers
>> remotes/origin/master
>>
>> What I had expected was a fullers branch.
>>
>> So apparently I did something very wrong here. What did I do wrong?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bob
>
> You didn't do anything wrong at all. That's exactly what I'd expect to
> see at the end. Git doesn't automatically create local branches (the
> ones without remotes/.../ in front) for any branches other than the one
> pointed to by remotes/origin/HEAD.
>
> The other developers will still have your fullers branch available to
> them, but if they want to do any work on it, they'll need to do
> something like "git checkout -b fullers origin/fullers" to create a
> local branch, which they can modify.
>
> --
> Jacob Helwig
>
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