Thanks for this fix. I've updated the site to add the "git pull upstream" statement.
On 9 December 2012 05:17, Adam Howard <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > It looks like I'm the first one to fork the Isis repo on GitHub. Woohoo! > > I'm following along with the instructions on the git workflow page[1] and I > ran into a problem: > > 1. In between the steps > > > git remote add upstream https://github.com/apache/isis.git > > git branch --set-upstream master upstream/master > > I had to run > > > git pull upstream > > I got this output > > From https://github.com/apache/isis > * [new branch] 0.1.2-incubating -> upstream/0.1.2-incubating > * [new branch] 0.2.0-incubating -> upstream/0.2.0-incubating > * [new branch] master -> upstream/master > You asked to pull from the remote 'upstream', but did not specify > a branch. Because this is not the default configured remote > for your current branch, you must specify a branch on the command line. > > The `git branch --set-upstream...` command worked fine after that. If I > didn't run `git pull upstream` I got the message "fatal: Not a valid object > name: 'upstream/master'." > > Someone with more git knowledge can answer whether this is the right > command to run or not. Either way the page should be updated. > > Thanks. > -- > Adam Howard > > [1] http://isis.apache.org/contributors/git-workflow.html >
