Re: Odd problem in repository

[Clark Williams <clark.williams@gmail.com>]

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Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> Clark Williams <clark.williams@gmail.com> wrote:
>> One of my collaborators cloned the repository the other day and found
>> that it didn't have any branches in it. I cloned a temp copy of it and
>> found that the files that normally would be in refs/heads to identify
>> the branches had somehow been moved to the directory
>> refs/remotes/origin. In my local repository (which was cloned
>> immediately after the CVS import), if I list what's in refs/heads, I get
>> this:
>>
>> $ ls -F refs/heads
>> master  mock  mock-0-6-branch  mock-0.7  origin
>>
>> on the whacky cloned copy, I get this:
>> $ ls -F refs/heads
>> master
>>
>> and if I look in refs/remotes/origin:
>> $ ls -F refs/remotes/origin
>> HEAD  master  mock  mock-0-6-branch  mock-0.7  origin
> 
> This is a change in Git versions.  Pre Git-1.5.0 we used to put all
> of the branches from the remote system into refs/heads, but now in
> 1.5.0 and later we put them in refs/remotes/origin.
> 
> Nothing screwed up on the central repository, its just the
> new layout.  refs/heads is reserved for *this* local repository,
> while refs/remotes/$name is reserved for the heads of $name remote
> repository.
> 

Ah, so I'm not totally inept, just unable to read release notes. Sigh.

But, I'm still confused. After you clone the central repository, with
the new layout, why can't I 'mock checkout -f mock-0-6-branch'? Do I
need to further qualify it, or create a local branch from it?

Probably a better question is: what man-page/web-page/mail-thread should
I read to figure this out?

Clark

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