Re: remote branches

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 08:42, Matthieu Imbert [off-list ref] wrote:

$ git clone
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
linux-2.6.git

- then i add a remote tracking branch:

$ git remote add --tags drm-intel
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ickle/drm-intel.git

You're adding a remote repository and tracking branches and tags from
it.

- Then i do git fetch or git fetch drm-intel, but nothing happens, and git
branch -r still only show me origin/HEAD and origin/master, no drm-intel
branches, though these branches do exist since i can see them with git
remote -v show drm-intel

You didn't add any remote tracking *branch*, you added a remote and
gave it the name "drm-intel". You could just as well do:

    git remote add --tags some-random-name
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ickle/drm-intel.git

Also because you specified --tags you're only getting the tags on "git
fetch", if you don't do that then:

    $ git fetch some-random-name
    remote: Counting objects: 567, done.
    remote: Compressing objects: 100% (377/377), done.
    remote: Total 488 (delta 371), reused 146 (delta 111)
    Receiving objects: 100% (488/488), 91.42 KiB, done.
    Resolving deltas: 100% (371/371), completed with 53 local objects.
    From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ickle/drm-intel
     * [new branch]      drm-intel-fixes -> some-random-name/drm-intel-fixes
     * [new branch]      drm-intel-fixes-2 -> some-random-name/drm-intel-fixes-2
     * [new branch]      drm-intel-next -> some-random-name/drm-intel-next
     * [new branch]      drm-intel-staging -> some-random-name/drm-intel-staging

Which allows you to do:

    $ git checkout --track some-random-name/drm-intel-fixes
    Branch drm-intel-fixes set up to track remote branch
drm-intel-fixes from some-random-name.
    Switched to a new branch 'drm-intel-fixes'