Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

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> "Aubrey Li" <aubreylee@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I'm behind of a firewall on which the git port is not permitted, so I
>> can only use http protocol. Unfortunately, I can't clone linus' git
>> tree at all. I've tried
>>
>> git version 1.4.4.2
>> git version 1.4.4.4
>> git version 1.5.0.1
>> git version 1.5.0.4
>> git version 1.5.0.6
>> git version 1.5.1.1,
>>
>> none of them work. The following is the error.
>
>         $ git init
>         $ git remote add origin http://.../linux-2.6.git

This step needs to have "add -m master" instead of just "add".

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> 	$ git config branch.master.remote origin
> 	$ git config branch.master.merge refs/heads/master
>         $ git fetch
>         $ git merge origin

Otherwise you end up having to say "git merge origin/master" here.

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>
> should work, because I knew about this problem and fixed it in
> git-fetch in v1.5.0.

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