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Re: onwards to git
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
- To: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at systemhalted dot org>
- Cc: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>, Jim Meyering <jim at meyering dot net>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, libc-ports at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 20:47:33 +0200
- Subject: Re: onwards to git
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"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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