Re: [Gnash-dev] BSD testing

[Robinson Tryon]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:50 AM, strk <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> At least with git version 1.6.0.2 I belive the branch command
> should also specify which remote branch to track, or will be
> a private branch with that name, so I had to do this:
>
> $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnash.git
> $ git branch release_0_8_8 origin/release_0_8_8
> $ git branch -v # shows last commit in HEAD of each branch
> * master        51a444f merge patches from bzr for media handler changes.
>  release_0_8_8 7332666 use git instead of bzr as the SCC
> $ git checkout release_0_8_8 # if you want to work on the release branch

You can create a local branch tracking the remote branch and check it
out at the same time like this:

$ git checkout -b release_0_8_8 origin/release_0_8_8


--R,
supportive of the move to git