Re: remote branches

[Matthieu Imbert <matthieu.imbert@inria.fr>]

On 02/13/2011 10:17 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 08:42, Matthieu Imbert<matthieu.imbert@inria.fr>  wrote:
>
>> $ git clone
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
>> linux-2.6.git
>>
>> - then i add a remote tracking branch:
>>
>> $ git remote add --tags drm-intel
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ickle/drm-intel.git
>
> You're adding a remote repository and tracking branches and tags from
> it.
>
>> - Then i do git fetch or git fetch drm-intel, but nothing happens, and git
>> branch -r still only show me origin/HEAD and origin/master, no drm-intel
>> branches, though these branches do exist since i can see them with git
>> remote -v show drm-intel
>
> You didn't add any remote tracking *branch*, you added a remote and
> gave it the name "drm-intel". You could just as well do:
>
>      git remote add --tags some-random-name
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ickle/drm-intel.git
>
> Also because you specified --tags you're only getting the tags on "git
> fetch", if you don't do that then:
>
>      $ git fetch some-random-name
>      remote: Counting objects: 567, done.
>      remote: Compressing objects: 100% (377/377), done.
>      remote: Total 488 (delta 371), reused 146 (delta 111)
>      Receiving objects: 100% (488/488), 91.42 KiB, done.
>      Resolving deltas: 100% (371/371), completed with 53 local objects.
>      From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ickle/drm-intel
>       * [new branch]      drm-intel-fixes ->  some-random-name/drm-intel-fixes
>       * [new branch]      drm-intel-fixes-2 ->  some-random-name/drm-intel-fixes-2
>       * [new branch]      drm-intel-next ->  some-random-name/drm-intel-next
>       * [new branch]      drm-intel-staging ->  some-random-name/drm-intel-staging
>
> Which allows you to do:
>
>      $ git checkout --track some-random-name/drm-intel-fixes
>      Branch drm-intel-fixes set up to track remote branch
> drm-intel-fixes from some-random-name.
>      Switched to a new branch 'drm-intel-fixes'

You're right, the faulty option was --tags. Trying without this i was 
able to fetch.
Thanks,

-- 
Matthieu