On 4/11/07, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Your arguments to git-branch are backwards. It should be: git-branch --track my18-olpc origin/mdl18-olpc Also note that --track didn't show up until 1.5.1. Other than that, it should do what you expect (check out your .git/config before and after to see the impact of --track).
thanks. And I'm reading the doco for 1.5.latest and it turns out I'm using 1.5.0.5 so that won't work either. hmmm. actually, I'm having another problem that is a bit more serious: cloning via http doesn't create a remotes/origin and doesn't perform the initial checkout. will post separately about this... martin - 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