On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:19:17AM -0600, Michael Gale wrote: > Hello, > > I am using the latest release of dulwich and am fetching a git repo > from github. > > I can fetch the repo and access master, view the commit log, etc. However I > need to switch branches but for the life of me can't figure out how :( > > I did try: > repo.refs.set_symbolic_ref(branch_name, repo_name) but that throws a > RefFormatError for the branch name. Can you give some examples of values you're passing for branch_namke and repo_name. You would presumably want "HEAD" and "refs/heads/somename".
> I also tried repo.refs.get_packed_refs() and it returns an empty list, so I > think I need to perform a fetch_pack()?? That's okay - the refs in your repo just aren't packed. That's got to do with the way they're stored on disk though; dulwich abstracts that away. Cheers, Jelmer _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dulwich-users Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dulwich-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
