[git-users] Small mystery
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 * branchjquery - 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Git for human beings group. To post to this group, send email to git-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
Re: [git-users] Small mystery
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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Git for human beings group. To post to this group, send email to git-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
Re: [git-users] Small mystery
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. -- Wow, thanks. So to clarify: git fetch origin jquery does download the commits but not the branch (labels?) -- Pito -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Git for human beings group. To post to this group, send email to git-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
Re: [git-users] Small mystery
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 12:36:22PM -0700, Jacob Helwig wrote: 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. This doesn't make sense. If the git checkout was to work, it would have to create at least the remote branch remote/origin/jquery, but apparently it does not do even that and only updates the FETCH_HEAD. A key note in git-fetch(1) is: A parameter ref without a colon is equivalent to ref: when pulling/fetching, so it merges ref into the current branch without storing the remote branch anywhere locally. So, just Don't Do That - just specify `git fetch` and it should pick up any missing branches. Or spell it out as jquery:jquery. (I think this default is fairly unhappy, perhaps git fetch should warn you if you use jquery instead of jquery:. Please ask about it on g...@vger if you care about it. :-) -- Petr Pasky Baudis http://pasky.or.cz/ | Ars longa, vita brevis. -- Hippocrates -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Git for human beings group. To post to this group, send email to git-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
[git-users] Re: Small mystery
A key note in git-fetch(1) is: A parameter ref without a colon is equivalent to ref: when pulling/fetching, so it merges ref into the current branch without storing the remote branch anywhere locally. That bit of the documentation seems a little off to me. There's no way that git fetch actually performs a merge. What it does is fetch the objects and update FETCH_HEAD to point to the fetched ref. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Git for human beings group. To post to this group, send email to git-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
