git-branch and git-remotes confusion

Hi,

maybe I'm daft, or cogito has eaten my brain. The task at hand is
really simple: clone from repo X, tracking branch Y (where branch Y !=
HEAD). The repo is http://git.catalyst.net.nz/git/moodle-r2.git , the
branch is mdl18-olpc .

With cg, this is trivial:

  cg-clone http://git.catalyst.net.nz/git/moodle-r2.git#mdl18-olpc

which automagically gives me a "master" and "origin" pair of heads
that do the right thing. Specifically, cg-update does the right thing.

With git 1.5.x, I managed to figure out that this is wrong. :

  git-clone --origin mdl18-olpc \
      http://git.catalyst.net.nz/git/moodle-r2.git

and now I am trying to see if some incantation around this works

   git-clone http://git.catalyst.net.nz/git/moodle-r2.git
   git-branch --track origin/mdl18-olpc my18-olpc

But it isn't working, and I'm reading git/Documentation for git-branch
and git-remote but I can't find it. I don't care about any other
branch (though if they are there, fine!). Is there a trivially simple
answer.

(Cogito has eaten my brain probably. For a long time I've always
cloned with cogito just for the sake of this convenience, even if I
was going to use git mostly when working with the code. Now I'm
working on a server that only has git, so I thought 1.5.x would make
this trivial...)

cheers,



martin

On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:05:17AM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:

  git-clone http://git.catalyst.net.nz/git/moodle-r2.git
  git-branch --track origin/mdl18-olpc my18-olpc

Your arguments to git-branch are backwards. It should be:

  git-branch --track my18-olpc origin/mdl18-olpc

Also note that --track didn't show up until 1.5.1.  Other than that, it
should do what you expect (check out your .git/config before and after
to see the impact of --track).

-Peff

On 4/11/07, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

Your arguments to git-branch are backwards. It should be:

  git-branch --track my18-olpc origin/mdl18-olpc

Also note that --track didn't show up until 1.5.1.  Other than that, it
should do what you expect (check out your .git/config before and after
to see the impact of --track).

thanks. And I'm reading the doco for 1.5.latest and it turns out I'm
using 1.5.0.5 so that won't work either.

hmmm. actually, I'm having another problem that is a bit more serious:
cloning via http doesn't create a remotes/origin and doesn't perform
the initial checkout.

will post separately about this...



martin