On Sunday 25 January 2009 21:16:43 Tim Moore wrote: > > Yes, it's important to type the whole thing, > git checkout -b maint origin/maint > > When you first check out the repository, "git checkout maint" should give > you an error, because the maint branch doesn't exist locally. "git-checkout > -b maint" will, perhaps confusingly, create a local maint branch that > starts at the current branch head, probably master's, not at the head of > the remote branch origin/maint.
Yesterday, at one point, I actually did have a maint branch, which I must have created this way, because it didn't differ from master. In retrospect, all the information was there, but I was a little lost. :-) > > I'll see about starting a Wiki page with some pointers to git resources. > Yeah that would be great. I'm still on the steep end of the learning curve when it comes to git, but it seems worthwhile, and if/when we switch to a different revision management system, git would be my preference, even when I still don't fully master it. cheers, Durk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
