On Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 13:36:50 (-0600) Bill Lear writes: >On Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 20:15:37 (+0100) Johannes Schindelin writes: >>On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Bill Lear wrote: >>> On Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 11:04:57 (-0800) Linus Torvalds writes: >>> >>> >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. >> >>The name in the bare repository does not matter as much as your _local_ >>name. > >Well, being a git newbie, it kinda matters to me. I need linearity >right now. Anything that swerves is likely to result in me and my >project stuck in the weeds. > >So, I tried a straight fetch: > >% GIT_DIR=. git fetch git://source/public/project > >This has one branch: > >% GIT_DIR=. git branch > topic Ummm, I may have made a mistake here ... doing again to ensure I did not mis-type above ... 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