You are completely right. Fortunately for me, I only want to keep up with the changes, so I only need to pull , not push. So my initial git pull --depth 1 <origin> was fine. Worked for years. It was only when I got involved in a sub-project that I added another users' topic, *without having enough background in Git *that things went wrong.
As regards all the tags and branches ag fg/fgdata, as long as I stick to master I am fine. I will never add a topic branch again without doing much more training in Git. It is not a quick-quick task to add a branch. And then think that *checkout* just means go to the other branch. IT DOESN'T!!! When I work on that topic again, it must be in a totally isolated/individual repository. The experts can then make it a part of *master.* But at the moment I am happy. I changed config.origin from [email protected]/fg/fgdata.git to git://gitorious.org/fg/fgdata.git and did git fetch git reset --hard origin/master and now everything works again. (mostly the other tags/branches are just version numbering of releases. What I get with a pull is the branch *next*, which is the bleeding edge version. Thanks again for all the help. If there is way to mark the topic as solved, please do so - I can't see how. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
