Hi, On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 01:20:29PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > $ git remote update > > BTW, is the following normal? > > $ git remote update origin > Remote group origin does not exists. > > (there *is* an origin remote) Straight from the man page: -- snip -- 'update':: Fetch updates for a named set of remotes in the repository as defined by remotes.<group>. If a named group is not specified on the command line, the configuration parameter remotes.default will get used; if remotes.default is not defined, all remotes which do not have the configuration parameter remote.<name>.skipDefaultUpdate set to true will be updated. (See linkgit:git-config[1]). -- snap -- To spare you the hassle from looking up the relevant section in git-config.1: -- snip -- remotes.<group>:: The list of remotes which are fetched by "git remote update <group>". See linkgit:git-remote[1]. -- snap -- So if you add a group to your config file, like [remotes] origin = origin kernelorg repoorcz your $ git remote update origin will succeed. Hth, Dscho - 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