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From: Sergiy Borodych <bor@univ.kiev.ua>
To: gentoo-perl@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-perl] perl-5.10.1_rc2 and patches
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:48:42 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A95211A.2010100@univ.kiev.ua> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8cd1ed20908251128w24e5e6c0gedb10ef6e543cf4a@mail.gmail.com>

On 08/25/09 21:28, Kent Fredric wrote:
> Read all of my response before doing anything ;)
ok :)
> 
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Sergiy Borodych <bor@univ.kiev.ua
> <mailto:bor@univ.kiev.ua>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     portage # cd /usr/local/portage/layman/perl-experimental
>     perl-experimental # git checkout -b alternatives alternatives
>     fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching
>     branches.
>     Did you intend to checkout 'alternatives' which can not be resolved as
>     commit?
> 
>  
> I Meant 'git checkout -b alternatives origin/alternatives' , which
> checkouts out the remote branch 'alternatives' ( on origin  ) locally.
> 
> 
> 
>     I think you mean
> 
>     git checkout -b alternatives
>     git pull origin alternatives
> 
> 
> Nah, that would just give you 2 copies of master with different names.
> Git 'checkout -b alternatives'  just checks out the current branch under
> the name 'alternatives', not what you want.  'git pull origin
> alternatives' will then *merge* the foreign branch called "alternatives"
> into the local branch called "alternatives" ( a derivative of master) ,
> which is not necessarily what you want in all cases.
>  
> git checkout -b NewbranchName remoteName/branchname
> 
> Is how I recommend you check out branches locally.
> 
> 
>     ?
> 
>     But now layman -S give me error :(
>     "
>     From git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/perl-overlay
>     <http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/perl-overlay>
>       3ddbd1a..43666a7  master     -> origin/master
>     You asked me to pull without telling me which branch you
>     want to merge with, and 'branch.alternatives.merge' in
>     your configuration file does not tell me either.        Please
>     specify which branch you want to merge on the command line and
>     try again (e.g. 'git pull <repository> <refspec>').
>     See git-pull(1) for details.
>     "
> 
> 
> This is because above, you appeared to have created a new branch called
> 'alternatives' with no remote name.
> 
> So when you run "git pull -u -v" in that checked out branch ( what
> layman does ), it will be going "Ok, you want to update the current
> branch, hold on, the hell? update from what?!.
>  

thanks for a good explanation

> 
>     What am I doing wrong?
> 
>     Anyway, thanks for advice :)
> 
>     P.S.
>     5.10.1 out - woohoo :)
> 
>     --
>     Sergiy Borodych
>     http://bor.org.ua
> 
> 
> 
> But you no longer need to worry about the branch, as we just merged the
> branch back into master :D
> 
> Note, we have 5.10.1 out, *and in overlay* now :D

yep
already install it ;)

> 
> $ cd /tmp/
> $ mkdir overlay
> $ cd overlay
> $ git clone git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/perl-overlay
> <http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/perl-overlay>
> 
> Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/overlay/perl-overlay/.git/
> remote: Counting objects: 11533, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (6340/6340), done.
> remote: Total 11533 (delta 6653), reused 8927 (delta 5110)
> Receiving objects: 100% (11533/11533), 2.14 MiB | 426 KiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (6653/6653), done.
> 
> $ cd perl-overlay/
> $ find dev-lang/perl
> 
> dev-lang/perl/
> dev-lang/perl/perl-5.10.1-r11.ebuild
> dev-lang/perl/metadata.xml
> dev-lang/perl/Manifest
> dev-lang/perl/ChangeLog
> 
> $ git pull -u -v
> 
> From git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/perl-overlay
> <http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/perl-overlay>
>  = [up to date]      master     -> origin/master
> Already up-to-date.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Kent
> 
> perl -e  "print substr( \"edrgmaM  SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3
> ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );"
> 
> http://kent-fredric.fox.geek.nz


-- 
Sergiy Borodych
http://bor.org.ua



      reply	other threads:[~2009-08-26 20:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-21 14:17 [gentoo-perl] perl-5.10.1_rc2 and patches Sergiy Borodych
2009-08-21 14:41 ` Nikolai Drozd
2009-08-21 14:50   ` Sergiy Borodych
2009-08-21 16:38     ` Kent Fredric
2009-08-25 13:05       ` Sergiy Borodych
2009-08-25 18:28         ` Kent Fredric
2009-08-26 11:48           ` Sergiy Borodych [this message]

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