From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Bradford Smith" Subject: Re: user manual wrong about remote branches? Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:34:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20070711152816.GB4138@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "J. Bruce Fields" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 11 17:34:40 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 1I8eD5-0003qm-2D for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:34:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755103AbXGKPeb (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:34:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755248AbXGKPeb (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:34:31 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.169]:32531 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755103AbXGKPea (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:34:30 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so139212ugf for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:34:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fv3ByHb5bq24i3Ha17vRXvwm6N4Y4HGJAfh/u9j1j2x2dGRSgX6gcrjyYrWmGLutSYk2WUtNopbBKnh1QSS+b1Xt2z9w20HlJ3T6/x6Y+jHSUZLqohhnToKQ+FIEUUpBqiR1JUhYol/+KT8EPK6SQ6GaXZziQqMwodrVOgKPFq8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=EfhJ2A4Jz6uDp3l1un4ydHwd6FdxtPcPh/Xi8oTBiNDs6epKG7MZ1zwcnfXpVX/O/qHIZUQXypMngiazEfRRH7hw1pk9jNF6m83ZDoGkMDLUbwtHQyOPl4o0izTsQrbpI9v28LutdClJadlwUj8qOdGHohyOj/D2fBOSwOa3js0= Received: by 10.78.162.4 with SMTP id k4mr2451840hue.1184168066094; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:34:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.178.10 with HTTP; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:34:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20070711152816.GB4138@fieldses.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: OK, the problem was the old version of git (1.4.4.2) I used to do the original clone. Cloning with the latest version gives me what the manual says I should get. Thanks! Bradford C. Smith On 7/11/07, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 11:21:53AM -0400, Bradford Smith wrote: > > I got the latest git source like this: > > > > git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git > > What version of git did you do this first clone with? > > > Then I did: > > > > make prefix=/usr/local all doc > > make prefix=/usr/local install install-doc > > > > So my current version is: > > > > git version 1.5.3.rc0.gbaa79 > > > > Now, Documentation/user-manual.txt says I should be able to see the > > remote branch I cloned from when I do this in the source directory. > > > > git branch -r > > > > However, this command gives no output at all. What gives? Does this > > mean git-fetch and git-pull won't work properly to keep me up-to-date > > with the main repository? > > The remote branch setup is done on the initial clone. So if you clone > again with the newly installed version of git, you'll probably see > what's expected. > > --b. >