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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Stephen Sinclair" <radarsat1@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to properly update dumb-hosted repo (using rsync..?)
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:46:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v3au06g0r.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9b3e2dc20712171511r41e6bd4p64d243747ad4d2af@mail.gmail.com> (Stephen Sinclair's message of "Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:11:47 -0500")

"Stephen Sinclair" <radarsat1@gmail.com> writes:

> $ git-pull
> Warning: No merge candidate found because value of config option
>          "branch.master.merge" does not match any remote branch fetched.
> No changes.
> -------------------
>
> However I haven't done any branching in this cloned repo, it is
> immediately after a git-clone from the web server.
>
> My .git/config basically looks like this, minus the "core" section:
>
> -------------------
> [remote "origin"]
>         url = http://my.server.com/git/project.git
>         fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
> [branch "master"]
>         remote = origin
>         merge = refs/heads/master
> -------------------
>
> Which seems fine to me...
> Any ideas?

A dumb question.  does "git ls-remote origin" show what you expect to be
there?  Specifically, does refs/heads/master exist?

      reply	other threads:[~2007-12-17 23:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-17 23:11 how to properly update dumb-hosted repo (using rsync..?) Stephen Sinclair
2007-12-17 23:46 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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