From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Lear Subject: Unable to checkout a branch after cloning Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:10:26 +0100 Message-ID: <4A814392.4080803@bubblegen.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 11 13:55:54 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MapxE-0000cc-RZ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:55:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750973AbZHKLxH (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:53:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751063AbZHKLxG (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:53:06 -0400 Received: from relay.ptn-ipout01.plus.net ([212.159.7.35]:29039 "EHLO relay.ptn-ipout01.plus.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751092AbZHKLxF (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:53:05 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEADrigErUnw4U/2dsb2JhbADRQ4QZBQ Received: from pih-relay08.plus.net ([212.159.14.20]) by relay.ptn-ipout01.plus.net with ESMTP; 11 Aug 2009 11:18:54 +0100 Received: from [80.229.236.194] (helo=[192.136.1.12]) by pih-relay08.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1MaoJH-0003xY-9u for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:10:27 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090626) X-Plusnet-Relay: 13693960936ca0499fb18918b18e1140 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi all, Apologies for perhaps a silly question, but I'd very much appreciate a little bit of assistance. I've set up a git repository on a machine accessible from the internet with the intention to share code with another developer. We clone the repository, commit changes then push back as you'd expect. The server runs gitweb for repository browsing. Clients are running git v1.6.0.6. When I created the initial repository I also created two additional branches - 'upstream' and 'custom'. The former is to act as a 'vendor branch' and the latter contains code specific to the custom platform that we're working on. The master branch contains merges from the upstream branch and also changes that we've made. The custom branch contains merges from master with custom platform specific changes. I've committed changes and on both upstream and custom branches as work progressed, merged them where appropriate, added tags etc and pushed everything to the remote repository. No problem. I can view the branches, tags etc in gitweb and everything looks fine. However, I can clone a new repository just fine but I'm unable to checkout the upstream or custom branches. After cloning, only the master branch is available, ie: > git checkout upstream error: pathspec 'upstream' did not match any file(s) known to git. > git branch -a * master origin/HEAD origin/master .git/config: [core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true bare = false logallrefupdates = true [remote "origin"] url = https://mysite/git/project.git fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* [branch "master"] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/master But the initial local repository where I work (ie created the branches, committed changes, tag, push etc) seems to be fine, ie > git checkout upstream Switched to branch "upstream" > git branch -a custom * master upstream .git/config: [core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true bare = false logallrefupdates = true [remote "origin"] url = https://mysite/git/project.git fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* Developers need to be able to clone the repository and then switch to the appropriate branch in order to work. However it seems that after a clone, only the master branch is available. Why is this? Any help would be much appreciated indeed. Many thanks, -- Matt