On Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 11:04:57 (-0800) Linus Torvalds writes: >... >Of course, I do agree that it'sa fairly confusing way to set up a repo, >and you generally shouldn't do it, but Bill did it that way explicitly. >Maybe he didn't do it "on purpose", but git at no point in time had any >way to know that Bill wanted somethign else. Nothing he did was "wrong", >and it's quite possible that it's what he could have meant to do. My setup was prompted by advice I got here. Perhaps I misunderstood. I thought the way to set up a shared public repo for my collaborators was to git --bare init-db --shared, then do a git fetch from the upstream repo. I want to be able to push into my public repo from one or more of my private repos, hence the need (I was told) for he bare option. >Anyway, it's certainly easy to fix. Bill, you can either: > > - just rename the "topic" branch to "master" I don't think I want this. I want to know I'm on the topic branch of that repo, anything else really makes me nervous. > - change the HEAD to point to "topic" rather than "master". Same for this...[Thanks for the advice, nevertheless.] I wonder if the original repo I pulled from is just messed up. Ahh -- I see Shawn just replied saying I needed to fetch in a different way. I shall peruse that and report clarity of vision when achieved... Bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html