Bill Lear <rael@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Monday, February 26, 2007 at 16:59:27 (-0800) Junio C Hamano writes: >>Bill Lear <rael@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> I can't seem to figure out the correct magic to get my buddy's branch, >>> and create the appropriate tracking branch at the same time without >>> doing a clone. >> >>I'll cheat and ask "git show b6f5da1e" ;-). >> >> $ git remote add -f -m master bob ../bob.git/ >> >>which should add: >> >> [remote "bob"] >> url = ../bob.git/ >> fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/bob/* >> >>to .git/config, and perform the initial "git fetch bob" so that >>bob's heads appear under your .git/refs/remotes/bob/*, iow, >>after this, you can ask: >> >> $ git branch -r >> bob/HEAD >> bob/master >> bob/topic-1 >> bob/topic-2 > > Ok, and then: > > % git checkout -b topic-1 bob/topic-1 > > Gets me onto a topic branch ... > > So, this does do what I've asked, and more: however, how can I get it > to do only the one branch that I want and not all of the others? If > this part is really annoyingly hard and/or stupid, don't hesitate to > say so. This time, I'll cheat and ask you to ask "git show b6f5da1e" ;-). - 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