On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 01:43 -0500, Jeff King wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:22:33PM -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote: > > > // fetching someone else's remote branches is not a standard thing to do > > // so we'll need to edit our .git/config file > > // you should have a section that looks like: > > [remote "gcc.gnu.org"] > > url = git://git.infradead.org/gcc.git > > fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/* > > // infradead's mirror puts the gcc svn branches in its own namespace > > // refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/* > > // change our fetch line accordingly > > [remote "gcc.gnu.org"] > > url = git://git.infradead.org/gcc.git > > fetch = +refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/*:refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/* > > FWIW, if you are writing a shell recipe for other people to cut and > paste, you can say this as: > > git config remote.gcc.gnu.org.fetch \ > '+refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/*:refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/*' I thought about that, but I like to encourage people to actually look at the config file, it's pretty easy to understand. Harvey - 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
