I have an alternative question. Why is there "-b" in the options? Git should automatically create local branches when checking out a remote branch, i.e., doing git checkout REL1_20 should automatically create a branch with that name based on origin/REL1_20.
*--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 5:23 PM, anubhav agarwal <anubhav...@gmail.com>wrote: > Really Sorry, I didn't notice they were there. > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Ori Livneh <o...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 2:14 PM, anubhav agarwal wrote: > > > > > Hi Guys, > > > > > > I am a newbie to mediawiki, I was following the instructions on this > page > > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_Git > > > > > > After cloning the gir repository on my desktop, there is no ".git" > folder > > > in it. > > > > > > Henceforth any of the following commands on that page like > > > > > > git branch -r | sort -V > > > or > > > git checkout -b REL<release number> origin/REL<release number> > > > > > > > > > > Anubhav, you have to 'cd' into the directory created by git-clone. > > > > > > -- > > Ori Livneh > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > > -- > Cheers, > Anubhav > > > Anubhav Agarwal| 4rth Year | Computer Science & Engineering | IIT Roorkee > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
