New XFS git tree on oss.sgi.com

[Russell Cattelan]

Niv Sardi wrote:
> Russell Cattelan <cattelan at thebarn.com> writes:
>
>   
>> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Now that the xfs-dev branch was updated after a while I tried a git pull
>>> an get a useless error message:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> I agree that is a worthless error message and does nothing to really
>> tell you what the problem is.
>>
>> The problem is that you have a tracking branch for xfs-dev so git
>> wants to leave your branch untouched
>> until you actually want to update it from the remote branch origin/xfs-dev
>> What you can do is:
>> % git-fetch
>> % git-pull . xfs-dev
>>
>> That will pull the latest xfs-dev stuff into your current branch.
>>
>>     
>>> hch at bigmac:~/work/xfs-dev$ git-pull You asked me to pull without
>>> telling me which branch you
>>> want to merge with, and 'branch.origin/xfs-dev.merge' in
>>> your configuration file does not tell me either.  Please
>>> name which branch you want to merge on the command line and
>>> try again (e.g. 'git pull <repository> <refspec>').
>>> See git-pull(1) for details on the refspec.
>>>
>>> If you often merge with the same branch, you may want to
>>> configure the following variables in your configuration
>>> file:
>>>
>>>     branch.origin/xfs-dev.remote = <nickname>
>>>     branch.origin/xfs-dev.merge = <remote-ref>
>>>     remote.<nickname>.url = <url>
>>>     remote.<nickname>.fetch = <refspec>
>>>
>>> See git-config(1) for details.
>>>
>>>
>>> Can you please make each of the current branches a proper git tree
>>> that is easy to work with?  Alternatively I'll just completely stop
>>> bothering with the dev tree if it's such a pain in the ass.
>>>       
>
> Please read git documentation.
>   
seriously?! you need to say this?

>    
> You don't want to be pulling xfs-dev into a xfs/master tree, you should
> setup a remote properly and have local branch tracking them.
>   
Ya and this is a non trivial thing to do without proper instructions.

>   
>> of course this would be so damn confusing if somebody would document
>> the procedures someplace?!
>>     
>
>   
>> Hmm I wonder where we could do that.... ohh wait maybe the WIKI!
>>     
>
> http://xfs.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=submit
> --> out of captcha images; this shouldn't happen
>   
Ok fixed.
> you can read this:
>   
Sigh ....
Honestly you think ptools info is useful here?

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