From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthias Lederhofer Subject: Re: Difficulties in advertising a new branch to git newbies Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:33:49 +0100 Message-ID: <20070130223349.GA30623@moooo.ath.cx> References: <87odognuhl.wl%cworth@cworth.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Carl Worth X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 30 23:34:01 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 1HC1Y6-0004VX-IC for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:33:58 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751859AbXA3Wdy (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:33:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751828AbXA3Wdy (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:33:54 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:56430 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751859AbXA3Wdx (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:33:53 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 30 Jan 2007 22:33:52 -0000 Received: from pD9EB9796.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO moooo.ath.cx) [217.235.151.150] by mail.gmx.net (mp030) with SMTP; 30 Jan 2007 23:33:52 +0100 X-Authenticated: #5358227 Mail-Followup-To: Carl Worth , git@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87odognuhl.wl%cworth@cworth.org> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: How about this: Create a directory, change into it and run git-init-db. Get the latest version: $ git fetch --force URL branch:origin $ git reset --hard origin Warning: this will overwrite changes you made to files in the repository (e.g. the Makefile). You can also drop the --force if you're sure your branch will always fast-forward.