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Re: remote branches


From: Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 07:45:58 +0530 (IST)

On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:

> Saifi Khan wrote:
> > Subsequent to a fresh DragonFly BSD 2.4.1 installation on AMD64
> > X2 box, i did the following steps to pull in the source code as
> > i did not want to use the Makefile.
> > 
> > # cd /usr
> > # mkdir src
> > # cd src
> > # git init
> > # git remote add origin git://git.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git
> > # git pull origin HEAD
> > 
> > Is this the recommended approach ?
> 
> No.  Just use git clone git://... src
> 
> > Additionally, when i try to view the 'remote' branches
> > # git branch -r
> > there are none seen.
> 
> Yes, because you only pulled master.
> 
> > Is this something to be worried about ?
> 
> run a "git remote update" to get all.
> 

Thanks Simon, for assistance with Git usage commands.

i've just started a 'git remote update' on my AMD64X2 box and
then i'm off to buildworld.


thanks
Saifi.




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