On 01/30/2012 11:51 AM, Karthik K wrote:
> Tried doing the following and encountered an error.
>
> Anything that needs to be done, to get this correct ? Thanks !
>
> $ git clone git://github.com/apache/flume.git
> Cloning into flume...
> remote: Counting objects: 13133, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4241/4241), done.
> remote: Total 13133 (delta 6692), reused 13014 (delta 6573)
> Receiving objects: 100% (13133/13133), 33.23 MiB | 424 KiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (6692/6692), done.
> ****warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.****
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> Karthik.
> *
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You just need to go into that repository and checkout the branch you
wish to work on.
bruno@Marsupilami tmp]$ git clone git://github.com/apache/flume.git
Cloning into
'flume'...
remote: Counting objects: 13133, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4241/4241), done.
remote: Total 13133 (delta 6692), reused 13014 (delta 6573)
Receiving objects: 100% (13133/13133), 33.23 MiB | 1.35 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (6692/6692), done.
warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.
[bruno@Marsupilami tmp]$ cd flume/
[bruno@Marsupilami flume]$ git branch -a
remotes/origin/flume-728
remotes/origin/flume-878
remotes/origin/flume-897
remotes/origin/ng-alpha-1
remotes/origin/ng-alpha-2
remotes/origin/trunk
[bruno@Marsupilami flume]$ git checkout trunk
Branch trunk set up to track remote branch trunk from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'trunk'
[bruno@Marsupilami flume]$ ls
bin contrib findbugsExclude.xml flume-distribution
flume-microbenchmarks ivysettings.xml plugins README
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CHANGELOG.html DEVNOTES flume-config-web flume-docs
flume-node-web LICENSE pmd.xml RELEASENOTES test-endtoend
conf docs flume-core flume-log4j-appender
flume-windows-dist NOTICE pom.xml src
