On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:54, Pito Salas <r...@salas.com> wrote:
> I thought I understood this but here's a puzzle for me:
>
> 1) Download jquery branch locally:
> $ git fetch origin jquery
> From github.com:trustthevote/ElectionManager
> * branch jquery -> FETCH_HEAD
> Looks like it worked, right?
>
> 2) List all branches. Where is it?
> $ git branch -a
> converterimport
> develop
> domain_tables
> jurist_list
> master
> txballot
> * web-theme
> remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
> remotes/origin/converterimport
> remotes/origin/cucumber
> remotes/origin/develop
> remotes/origin/domain_tables
> remotes/origin/idents
> remotes/origin/master
> remotes/origin/mimic_nh_ballots
> remotes/origin/railroad
> remotes/origin/refactorrender
> remotes/origin/release-001
> remotes/origin/singleballotimp
> remotes/origin/tgd_dev
> remotes/origin/txballot
> remotes/origin/web-theme
> remotes/origin/wicked_pdf
> remotes/origin/yaml_batch_import
> remotes/origin/ymlsupport
>
> Anyone see what's messing me up? Probably something stupid...
>
> Thanks!
>
> Pito
>
The problem is that git fetch doesn't _create_ branches.
When you downloaded the branch with "git fetch origin jquery", it
stored the ref locally as FETCH_HEAD ("cat .git/FETCH_HEAD" if you
want to see the details). If you want to create a local branch based
off of the remote jquery branch, you can "git fetch && git checkout -b
jquery origin/jquery". The "git fetch" in this case is simply "update
all of my references to the origin repo", and "git checkout -b jquery
origin/jquery" will create a local jquery branch based off of the
origin/jquery reference.
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