On 23.11.2015 18:04, Carlos Martín Nieto wrote:
Hello Mark,
On 23 Nov 2015, at 12:04, Marc Strapetz <marc.strapetz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There is a strange "branch --set-upstream-to" failure for "clones" which haven't been created using "git clone" but constructed using "git init", "git remote add" and "git fetch".
Following script first creates a "main" repository and then constructs the clone. Finally, in the clone branches origin/1 and origin/2 will be present, however it's not possible to invoke "git branch --set-upstream-to" for origin/2 (it works fine for origin/1).
I guess the behavior is related to following line in .git/config:
fetch = refs/heads/1:refs/remotes/origin/1
However, I don't understand what's the problem for Git here? Definitely the error "starting point 'origin/2' is not a branch" is wrong.
That is indeed the issue. The configuration which is stored in the configuration is a remote+branch pair. If there is no fetch refspec configured which would create the ‘origin/2’ remote-tracking branch, the command does not know which remote and branch that would correspond to.
Thanks, Carlos, I understand now.
My goal is to have a clone which will only fetch specific branches, so I
guess I have to stick with "refs/heads/1:refs/remotes/origin/1" for the
beginning and for every new branch X add another
"refs/heads/X:refs/remotes/origin/X"? Or is there a better way?
-Marc
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