Re: remote branches

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

> On another laptop, i pulled in the code (couple of months ago)
> using
> # git clone -o chlamydia git://chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de/dragonfly.git
>
> followed by periodic
> # git pull
>
> When, i try to view the remote branches, Git shows it as,
> # git branch -r
>
>   origin/DragonFly_RELEASE_1_10
[..]

> What could i be missing here ?

where?


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