Re: Terminology question about remote branches.

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> writes:

> On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> "Lars Hjemli" <lh@elementstorage.no> writes:
>>
>>> The magic setup that makes this happen is the following lines in .git/config:
>> It would be helpful.  Except that nothing whatsoever can be found in
>> .git/config concerning my local and my remote tracking branches.  So
>> where is that information _really_ hidden away?
>
>> What gives?
>
> It would appear that your repo was created with an old version of
> git. Which also explains why you were talking about origin as a
> branch - which it used to be (a real local branch too ...), rather
> than as a remote - which it is now.
>
> The whole remotes/tracking mechanism changed in 1.5.0 - now it's
> much more flexible (and probably more complicated too).

I think I am going to cry.  So I need to rebase my branches, pull out
the resulting patch sets, scrap my repository, clone it new from
upstream, reapply my branches, in order to have a system where the
documentation is somewhat in synch with the actual behavior?

[...]

No, it would seem that I can just
git-clone -l
my repository and be set up in the new order of things.  Nice.

However, it would appear from my experiments up to now that the
--track option _can't_ be made to work with a 1.4 repository.  I think
that is worth mentioning in the docs.

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