Re: Testing gnomeui

[Mariano Mara <mariano.mara@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 21.04.09 19:45, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 07:38:25PM +0200, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 07:01:54PM +0200, Christoph Höger wrote:
> > > 
> > > Ahrgh, me and explanations of how stuff works. Somedays I really suck at
> > > that. The correct command would be 
> > >   git checkout --track origin/gnomeui
> > > 
> > > sorry for that
> > > 
> > > From your current repo you should do
> > > 
> > >   git checkout master; git branch -d origin/gnomeui; git checkout --track
> > > origin/gnomeui
> > > 
> > > that should work.
> > 
> > This should be:
> > git checkout master; git branch -d gnomeui; git checkout --track 
> > origin/gnomeui
> 
> My bad. This should be:
> 
>       git checkout master; git branch -d refs/heads/origin/gnomeui; 
>       git checkout --track origin/gnomeui
> 
> to avoid the possible confusion with the remote tracking branch
> "origin/gnomeui".
> 
> -- 
> Nicolas Sebrecht
> 
> 

Hi Nicolas, Christoph, thanks a lot for your help.

You must excuse my ignorance but I'm still unable to replicate the
commands. Here's the last output. If you can suggest what to fix I will
appreciate it.

mariano@kafka:~/Sandbox$ git clone git://git.complete.org/offlineimap
Initialized empty Git repository in
/home/mariano/Sandbox/offlineimap/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 5542, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3640/3640), done.
remote: Total 5542 (delta 2106), reused 4049 (delta 1069)
Receiving objects: 100% (5542/5542), 6.31 MiB | 100 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (2106/2106), done.
mariano@kafka:~/Sandbox$ cd offlineimap/
mariano@kafka:~/Sandbox/offlineimap$ git checkout master;
Already on "master"
mariano@kafka:~/Sandbox/offlineimap$ git branch -d
refs/heads/origin/gnomeui;
error: branch 'refs/heads/origin/gnomeui' not found.
mariano@kafka:~/Sandbox/offlineimap$ git checkout -b origin/gnomeui
Switched to a new branch "origin/gnomeui"
mariano@kafka:~/Sandbox/offlineimap$ git branch -d
refs/heads/origin/gnomeui;
error: branch 'refs/heads/origin/gnomeui' not found.
mariano@kafka:~/Sandbox/offlineimap$ git checkout --track origin/gnomeui
warning: refname 'origin/gnomeui' is ambiguous.
fatal: git checkout: --track and --no-track require -b
mariano@kafka:~/Sandbox/offlineimap$ git checkout --track origin/gnomeui
-b refs/heads/origin/gnomeui;
warning: refname 'origin/gnomeui' is ambiguous.
warning: refname 'origin/gnomeui' is ambiguous.
fatal: Ambiguous object name: 'origin/gnomeui'.
mariano@kafka:~/Sandbox/offlineimap$ git checkout master; git branch -d
refs/heads/origin/gnomeui;
Switched to branch "master"
error: branch 'refs/heads/origin/gnomeui' not found.