From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Lear Subject: Re: Why is git clone not checking out files? Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:54:22 -0600 Message-ID: <17855.41582.273304.760413@lisa.zopyra.com> References: <17855.35058.967318.546726@lisa.zopyra.com> <17855.36470.309129.391271@lisa.zopyra.com> <200701301950.00195.jnareb@gmail.com> <17855.39008.920685.62837@lisa.zopyra.com> <17855.40530.256749.539318@lisa.zopyra.com> <17855.40922.849939.976654@lisa.zopyra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Johannes Schindelin , Linus Torvalds , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 30 20:54:28 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HBz3k-0000r1-56 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:54:28 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751002AbXA3TyY (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:54:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751043AbXA3TyY (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:54:24 -0500 Received: from mail.zopyra.com ([65.68.225.25]:60309 "EHLO zopyra.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751002AbXA3TyX (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:54:23 -0500 Received: (from rael@localhost) by zopyra.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id l0UJsM604968; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:54:22 -0600 In-Reply-To: <17855.40922.849939.976654@lisa.zopyra.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.1.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 13:43:22 (-0600) Bill Lear writes: >On Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 13:36:50 (-0600) Bill Lear writes: >>On Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 20:15:37 (+0100) Johannes Schindelin writes: >>>On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Bill Lear wrote: >>>> On Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 11:04:57 (-0800) Linus Torvalds writes: >>>> >>>> >Anyway, it's certainly easy to fix. Bill, you can either: >>>> > >>>> > - just rename the "topic" branch to "master" >>>> >>>> I don't think I want this. I want to know I'm on the topic branch of >>>> that repo, anything else really makes me nervous. >>> >>>The name in the bare repository does not matter as much as your _local_ >>>name. >> >>Well, being a git newbie, it kinda matters to me. I need linearity >>right now. Anything that swerves is likely to result in me and my >>project stuck in the weeds. >> >>So, I tried a straight fetch: >> >>% GIT_DIR=. git fetch git://source/public/project >> >>This has one branch: >> >>% GIT_DIR=. git branch >> topic > >Ummm, I may have made a mistake here ... doing again to ensure I did >not mis-type above ... Ok, I hate twice quoting my self, especially to admit to crack smoking. I was indeed apparently smoking crack --- no such branch shows up... Bill