Re: kernel.org git tree corrupt?

["Steve French" <smfrench@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>  On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Steve French wrote:
>  > Now "git branch -a" shows
>  > * master
>  >   origin/master
>  >
>  > It is missing "origin/HEAD"
>
>  Ahh, yeah, my bad. The origin/HEAD thing will be created if you use either
>  clone or "git remote add -m master" to create the remote. But when I asked
>  you to do it by just editing the config file, you now have to create that
>  HEAD pointer manually too.
>
>  You can do
>
>         git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD refs/remotes/origin/master
>
>  to create the thing (it just creates a symbolic ref from the origin/HEAD
Worked.

Shaggy pointed me to the git-request-pull script which is
easier than the previous scripts I used and now works fine on
the cifs-2.6.git tree so will send merge request.


-- 
Thanks,

Steve