Re: patches to apply

[Peekay Ex]

David/Carl

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 6:01 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> Peekay Ex <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>>>> Well, use whatever your tracking branch is called.  What does
>>>>> git branch -r
>>>>> say?
>>>>
>>>>address@hidden:~/lilypond-git$ git branch -r
>>>>  origin/HEAD -> origin/master
>>>>  origin/master
>>>
>>>
>>> I would do:
>>>
>>> git checkout dev/staging
>>> git push origin dev/staging
>>>
>>> In order to get my changes into dev/staging on origin.
>>>
>>
>> Unfortunately not, I get
>>
>> address@hidden:~/lilypond-git$ git checkout dev/staging
>> error: pathspec 'dev/staging' did not match any file(s) known to git.
>>
>> --snip--
>>
>> I need to do some more homework on GIT and Branches.
>
> You just don't have any branches except master on your computer.
>
> Make sure that in .git/config, you have the line
>
>        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
>
> (no other fetch lines should be necessary) in the section [remote
> "origin"].  Then do
>
> git fetch
>
> After that, your repository should be populated with _every_ remote
> branch available.
>

Thanks to you both, that helped a lot.

I'm able to push to dev/staging now.

Regards


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James