Even if you cannot push it is worth tracking so that pull works 2009/5/23 Daniel Schierbeck <[email protected]>
> > Just as a little hint; if you have write access to the remote branch, > and want it to work the same way "master" does with "origin/master", > you can add the --track (or just -t) option to git branch. That will > make the local branch "track" the remote, i.e. pushing and pulling > from that branch is implicitly done with the tracked remote branch, > without needing specification; e.g. > > git checkout -tb foo some-remote/bar > git commit -am "Implement awesomeness" > git push # pushes to some-remote/bar > > > Best regards, > Daniel Schierbeck > > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 1:29 AM, Jason King <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mike has steered you on the right track for this time, more generally > though > > - remote branches aren't available directly as local branches when using > > git. I faced this myself, and worked it out independently so someone > please > > correct me if I'm giving Joshua a bum steer here. > > You can view the remote branches in a cloned repo by passing the -r > option > > to git branch: > > > > git branch -r > > > > You can then checkout one of the remote branches to a local branch with > > something like this (remember, as per Mike's advice, this is not what you > > want in this particular case): > > > > git checkout -b 3-0-unstable origin/3-0-unstable > > > > And then proceed as usual. > > On 22/05/2009, at 2:56 PM, Joshua Partogi wrote: > > > > Dear all, > > > > Sorry for my lame question here. I want to pull out the version 3 source > > from github. Therefore I use the clone command as such: git clone > > git://github.com/rails/rails.git > > > > I then get in to the working directory and typed: git branch 3-0-unstable > > > > But it turns out that I can not do that because there's only master > branch. > > > > Does anyone know what am I missing here? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > -- > > Join Scrum8.com. > > > > http://scrum8.com/jpartogi/ > > http://twitter.com/scrum8 > > > > > > > > -- > > Join Scrum8.com. > > > > http://scrum8.com/jpartogi/ > > http://twitter.com/scrum8 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
