-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Clark Williams <clark.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> One of my collaborators cloned the repository the other day and found >> that it didn't have any branches in it. I cloned a temp copy of it and >> found that the files that normally would be in refs/heads to identify >> the branches had somehow been moved to the directory >> refs/remotes/origin. In my local repository (which was cloned >> immediately after the CVS import), if I list what's in refs/heads, I get >> this: >> >> $ ls -F refs/heads >> master mock mock-0-6-branch mock-0.7 origin >> >> on the whacky cloned copy, I get this: >> $ ls -F refs/heads >> master >> >> and if I look in refs/remotes/origin: >> $ ls -F refs/remotes/origin >> HEAD master mock mock-0-6-branch mock-0.7 origin > > This is a change in Git versions. Pre Git-1.5.0 we used to put all > of the branches from the remote system into refs/heads, but now in > 1.5.0 and later we put them in refs/remotes/origin. > > Nothing screwed up on the central repository, its just the > new layout. refs/heads is reserved for *this* local repository, > while refs/remotes/$name is reserved for the heads of $name remote > repository. > Ah, so I'm not totally inept, just unable to read release notes. Sigh. But, I'm still confused. After you clone the central repository, with the new layout, why can't I 'mock checkout -f mock-0-6-branch'? Do I need to further qualify it, or create a local branch from it? Probably a better question is: what man-page/web-page/mail-thread should I read to figure this out? Clark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGLkIAqA4JVb61b9cRAn8VAJ9Q7U4ZxP4Jc6OSyd1rcVufbBOO6wCfdDUn Pmo7URBzl8PcCSRXu5BqYc0= =yl7q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - 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