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Re: onwards to git


"Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@systemhalted.org> writes:

> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>>> Q: How do I checkout the glibc-2_9-branch from git?
>>>
>>> A: Checkout the sources from the glibc-2_9 tag into a local branch
>>> named glibc-2_9-branch
>>> git checkout -b glibc-2_9-branch glibc-2_9
>>
>> You probably want to use origin/glibc-2_9-branch instead of the tag.
>> With a recent version of git (since 1.6.1) you can use this:
>>
>> $ git checkout --track origin/glibc-2_9-branch
>>
>> This is equivalent to the following:
>>
>> $ git checkout --track -b glibc-2_9-branch origin/glibc-2_9-branch
>
> There is no glibc-2_9-branch in the git repo, are we missing branches?

It exists in CVS.  That it doesn't appear in the git repo is a bug in
the conversion tool.

Andreas.

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