From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timur Tabi Subject: Did I miss something? git-clone doesn't grab all branches???? Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:57:34 -0500 Organization: Freescale Message-ID: <460D336E.9040708@freescale.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 30 17:58:01 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 1HXJUD-00028w-4c for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:57:57 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753368AbXC3P5m (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:57:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753521AbXC3P5m (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:57:42 -0400 Received: from de01egw01.freescale.net ([192.88.165.102]:63583 "EHLO de01egw01.freescale.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753368AbXC3P5l (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:57:41 -0400 Received: from de01smr02.am.mot.com (de01smr02.freescale.net [10.208.0.151]) by de01egw01.freescale.net (8.12.11/de01egw01) with ESMTP id l2UFvYsf029575 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:57:39 -0700 (MST) Received: from [10.82.19.119] (ld0169-tx32.am.freescale.net [10.82.19.119]) by de01smr02.am.mot.com (8.13.1/8.13.0) with ESMTP id l2UFvYQn029640 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:57:34 -0500 (CDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20070111 SeaMonkey/1.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org I used to be able to do this: git-clone http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git cd powerpc git-checkout for-2.6.22 But that doesn't work any more. Why not? It was working perfectly fine before. So someone told me I need to do this: git-clone http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git cd powerpc git-fetch http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git for-2.6.22:for-2.6.22 git-checkout for-2.6.22 Ok, fine, but now when I do git-pull, I get this: [snip] * refs/remotes/origin/merge: fast forward to branch 'merge' of http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc old..new: e0f2e3a..190a440 Warning: No merge candidate found because value of config option "branch.for-2.6.22.merge" does not match any remote branch fetched. No changes. What does the warning mean? And why is it so difficult to clone branches now? -- Timur Tabi Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale