Re: git not fetching from origin...

[Patrick McCarty]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 08:02:41AM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
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> On 5/19/09 11:58 PM, "Mark Polesky" <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > 
> > Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
> >>>> 3.  git pull origin master
> >>> From git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond
> >>>  * branch            master    -> FETCH_HEAD
> >>> Already up-to-date.
> >> 
> >> OK, this says everything is working just fine, so I don't know
> >> why you are getting an error message from git gui.
> >> 
> >> Looks to me like you're good to go.
> > 
> > Except that I have no idea how this thing works. I'm happy to
> > avoid the gui and stick with the bash (if I knew how), but the
> > instructions in the CG don't seem to work.
> 
> Which instructions in the CG don't work?  (I'm not being defensive, I'm
> trying to understand).
> 
> You might try working with git gui by creating a local branch named "master"
> instead of "lilypond-local".  Given the results of your git pull commands, I
> think that git gui doesn't know how to pull from origin/master into
> local-lilypond.
> 
> To create this branch, you'd do (I hope this is right):
> 
> git branch master

This is right.

> git checkout origin/master

If you do this, a remote branch (origin/master) will be checked out,
leaving you on a non-existent local branch.

Instead, use

$ git checkout master

Or, you can combine the two commands:

$ git checkout -b master


HTH,
Patrick