On Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 13:43:22 (-0600) Bill Lear writes: >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 ... Ok, I hate twice quoting my self, especially to admit to crack smoking. I was indeed apparently smoking crack --- no such branch shows up... 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