Re: Git conversion status

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Magnus Hagander's message of lun sep 20 12:49:28 -0400 2010:
>
>> Committers can (and should! please test!) clone from git clone
>> ssh://git@gitmaster.postgresql.org/postgresql.git.
>>
>> Please do *NOT* commit or push anything to this repository yet though:
>> The repo is there - all the scripts to manage it are *not*. So don't
>> commit until I confirm that it is.
>>
>> But please clone and verify the stuff we have now.
>
> I tried to follow the instructions on the Wiki but they didn't work.
> The ones under the heading "Dependent Clone per Branch, Pushing and
> Pulling From a Local Repository" that is.
>
> What I find is that after doing the local clone for the branch, i.e.
>  git clone postgresql REL9_0_STABLE
> this clones only the "master" branch somehow, not the other branches; so
> when I later run
>  git checkout REL9_0_STABLE
> on that clone, it fails with this message:
>
> $ git checkout REL9_0_STABLE
> error: pathspec 'REL9_0_STABLE' did not match any file(s) known to git.

Oops.  I left out a step.  Fixed.

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