# git-branch and git-remotes confusion

3 messages from 2007-04-10 to 2007-04-10. Participants: Martin Langhoff, Jeff King.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/7597

## Martin Langhoff, 2007-04-10 12:05

Subject: git-branch and git-remotes confusion
Message-ID: <46a038f90704100505i7bdd88a8q52186f7ce7ff0cdf@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/46a038f90704100505i7bdd88a8q52186f7ce7ff0cdf%40mail.gmail.com

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Hi,

maybe I'm daft, or cogito has eaten my brain. The task at hand is
really simple: clone from repo X, tracking branch Y (where branch Y !=
HEAD). The repo is http://git.catalyst.net.nz/git/moodle-r2.git , the
branch is mdl18-olpc .

With cg, this is trivial:

  cg-clone http://git.catalyst.net.nz/git/moodle-r2.git#mdl18-olpc

which automagically gives me a "master" and "origin" pair of heads
that do the right thing. Specifically, cg-update does the right thing.

With git 1.5.x, I managed to figure out that this is wrong. :

  git-clone --origin mdl18-olpc \
      http://git.catalyst.net.nz/git/moodle-r2.git

and now I am trying to see if some incantation around this works

   git-clone http://git.catalyst.net.nz/git/moodle-r2.git
   git-branch --track origin/mdl18-olpc my18-olpc

But it isn't working, and I'm reading git/Documentation for git-branch
and git-remote but I can't find it. I don't care about any other
branch (though if they are there, fine!). Is there a trivially simple
answer.

(Cogito has eaten my brain probably. For a long time I've always
cloned with cogito just for the sake of this convenience, even if I
was going to use git mostly when working with the code. Now I'm
working on a server that only has git, so I thought 1.5.x would make
this trivial...)

cheers,



martin

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## Jeff King, 2007-04-10 12:25

Subject: Re: git-branch and git-remotes confusion
Message-ID: <20070410122516.GA27388@coredump.intra.peff.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070410122516.GA27388%40coredump.intra.peff.net
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90704100505i7bdd88a8q52186f7ce7ff0cdf@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:05:17AM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:

>   git-clone http://git.catalyst.net.nz/git/moodle-r2.git
>   git-branch --track origin/mdl18-olpc my18-olpc

Your arguments to git-branch are backwards. It should be:

  git-branch --track my18-olpc origin/mdl18-olpc

Also note that --track didn't show up until 1.5.1.  Other than that, it
should do what you expect (check out your .git/config before and after
to see the impact of --track).

-Peff

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## Martin Langhoff, 2007-04-10 12:33

Subject: Re: git-branch and git-remotes confusion
Message-ID: <46a038f90704100533l7d795e79vd6245445c7e74c67@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/46a038f90704100533l7d795e79vd6245445c7e74c67%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <20070410122516.GA27388@coredump.intra.peff.net>

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On 4/11/07, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> Your arguments to git-branch are backwards. It should be:
>
>   git-branch --track my18-olpc origin/mdl18-olpc
>
> Also note that --track didn't show up until 1.5.1.  Other than that, it
> should do what you expect (check out your .git/config before and after
> to see the impact of --track).

thanks. And I'm reading the doco for 1.5.latest and it turns out I'm
using 1.5.0.5 so that won't work either.

hmmm. actually, I'm having another problem that is a bit more serious:
cloning via http doesn't create a remotes/origin and doesn't perform
the initial checkout.

will post separately about this...



martin

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