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user manual wrong about remote branches?

Subject: user manual wrong about remote branches?

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3 messages between Jul 11, 2007 and Jul 11, 2007.

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Bradford Smith· Jul 11, 2007, 15:21 UTC · lore

I got the latest git source like this:

git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git

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?

Thanks,

Bradford C. Smith

J. Bruce Fields· Jul 11, 2007, 15:28 UTC · re: Bradford Smith · lore

Re: user manual wrong about remote branches?

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?

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> 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.

Bradford Smith· Jul 11, 2007, 15:34 UTC · re: J. Bruce Fields · lore

Re: user manual wrong about remote branches?

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 <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:

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> 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.
>