On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 07:09 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:

quoted text
> > I'd suggest making your life a little bit easier.  Consider creating
> > a remote that points to Linus:
> > 
> >   $ git remote add linus git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
> >   $ git checkout -b master   ; # or any other branch
> >   $ git config branch.master.remote linus
> >   $ git config branch.master.merge refs/heads/master

Dang.  git was happy with everything above except the checkout -b
master, so I can't get off the dangling limb I'm on, and onto a solid
branch.

root@Homer: git checkout -b master
git checkout: branch master already exists
root@Homer: git branch
* (no branch)
  master
root@Homer: time git pull
remote: Generating pack...
remote: Counting objects: 18672
remote: Done counting 55975 objects.
remote: Result has 48507 objects.
remote: Deltifying 48507 objects...
remote:  100% (48507/48507) done
Indexing 48507 objects...
remote: Total 48507 (delta 38878), reused 44654 (delta 35166)
 100% (48507/48507) done
Resolving 38878 deltas...
 100% (38878/38878) done
3419 objects were added to complete this thin pack.
* refs/remotes/origin/master: fast forward to branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
  old..new: 86a71db..d85714d
You are not currently on a branch; you must explicitly
specify which branch you wish to merge:
  git pull <remote> <branch>

real    8m12.676s
user    0m29.621s
sys     0m2.763s

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