Re: Feta font modifications by Janek

[David Kastrup]

Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:

> 2013/9/4 Peter Bjuhr <address@hidden>:
>> Is this what I need to do next to get the remote branches?
>
> If you just want to build these branches with my script you shouldn't
> have to do anything.
>
>> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/contributor/working-with-remote-branches
>
> Oh my God!  This looks awful, and is probably meant for ancient Git
> versions (like 1.7.0).  Ugh.  We should update that instructions...
>
> With new git versions (1.8 and above), you can just do 'git checkout
> origin/blahblah' and a local 'blahblah' branch will be created
> automatically for you (and checked-out).

Uh, no?  It doesn't create a local branch but rather checks out a commit
detached from any branch.  At least that's what Git 1.8.3.2 does for me
(and it did so as long as I remember).

> If you'd like to give your local branch a specific name, you can run
> 'git branch myname remotebranch', i.e. 'git branch foo origin/trololo'
> will create a local branch 'foo' that will be tracking branch
> 'trololo' from remote 'origin'.

Sure.  Again, this has been this way, like, forever.

-- 
David Kastrup