Re: git-rev-tree

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Dave Jones wrote:

(18:47:37:davej@hera:agp2)$ export KERNEL=master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/
(18:47:43:davej@hera:agp2)$ git fetch $KERNEL/torvalds/linux-2.6 master:linus
davej@master.kernel.org's password:
Packing 35335 objects
Unpacking 35335 objects
 100% (35335/35335) done
* committish: d27ba47e7e8c466c18983a1779d611f82d6a354f
  branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git//torvalds/linux-2.6
* refs/heads/linus: storing branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git//torvalds/linux-2.6

which looks ok, but then when I do the git log linus..HEAD, I get no output at all.

You've got the right "linus" commit.

However, are you aware that I did pull from you? If you don't have 
anything new, "no output at all" is the right thing.

*click*, ahh wait, I didn't have a 'linus' branch before I did that fetch.
For the above to work, do I need there to be a 'linus' branch before
I start making changes ?  Or am I barking up the wrong tree ?

No, the above will have created the "linus" branch as needed.

		Linus