Re: createrepo future

On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 23:26 +0200, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 8. August 2007 22:32 schrieb seth vidal:
> > On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 22:22 +0200, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> > > Am Mittwoch, 8. August 2007 20:51 schrieb seth vidal:
> > > > 2. I've made a 'maintenance' branch of createrepo in that git
> > > > repository. That's where all the work for 0.4.X's will go, so we can
> > > > apply patches to the existing code base while working on a new one.
> > > > (git checkout -f maintenance)
> > >
> > > Hmm:
> > >
> > > ~> git clone http://linux.duke.edu/createrepo/git/createrepo.git
> > > createrepo [..]
> > > ~> cd createrepo
> > > ~> git checkout -f maintenance
> > > git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching
> > > branches/forcing Did you intend to checkout 'maintenance' which can not
> > > be resolved as commit?
> >
> > yes, it means my instructions were wrong b/c I'm dumb and git is
> > confusing to me
> 
> Same here, with the difference of being a _lot_ dumper than you, btw.
> 
> > after you clone do:
> >
> > git branch –track maintenance origin/maintenance
> 
> Hmm, -track isn't known in git version 1.5.0.4.GIT, but

--track



> ~> git checkout maintenance
> 
> seems to do the trick. Well the git adventure continues ;-)

thanks. :)

-sv