Hello, I'm having trouble understanding branching and pull. Using git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git I can create a branch off the master and do a pull: wink@ic2d1:~/linux/linux-2.6$ git-checkout master Switched to branch "master" wink@ic2d1:~/linux/linux-2.6$ git-checkout -b test Switched to a new branch "test" wink@ic2d1:~/linux/linux-2.6$ git-pull Already up-to-date. But from some reason using git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm.git the following happens wink@ic2d1:~/linux/kvm-linux-2.6$ git-checkout master Already on branch "master" wink@ic2d1:~/linux/kvm-linux-2.6$ git-checkout -b test Switched to a new branch "test" wink@ic2d1:~/linux/kvm-linux-2.6$ git-pull Warning: No merge candidate found because value of config option "branch.test.merge" does not match any remote branch fetched. No changes. What I notice is that in kvm.git that .git/remotes is empty while on linux-2.6.git .git/remotes has origin and it contains: URL: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git Pull: refs/heads/master:refs/heads/origin Another difference is that the .git/config file of kvm.git has quite a few items: [core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true bare = false logallrefupdates = true [remote "origin"] url = git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm.git fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* [branch "master"] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/master While linux-2.6.git is quite sparse: [core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true Could someone give me some insight or point me at a url or doc that could shed some light on what is happening and why git-pull doesn't work on kvm.git. Thanks, Wink Saville - 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