Hi Matt, On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 21:06, Matt Price <mopto...@gmail.com> wrote: > hmm, what are the pul instructions for this? sorry, my git-fu is pretty > basic: I tried > git pull origin/org-xhtml-and-org-odt > and > git pull org-xhtml-and-org-odt
With master checked out (git checkout master), do the following: $ git pull $ git checkout -b <some_name_u_like> origin/org-xhtml-and-org-odt Now you are on the <some_name_u_like> branch which tracks origin/org-xhtml-and-org-odt. Now you can compile, experiment whatever. When you have had enough fun, to get back to master do the following: $ git checkout master Any subsequent updates to the branch from Jambunathan will be pulled in automatically when you do `git pull' in the future. However your local branch tracking origin/org-xhtml-and-org-odt will not be updated. To do that do the following: $ git checkout <some_name_u_like> $ git pull -f The `-f' is there to deal with situations when Jambunathan rebases his branch on top of the latest master (this is common practice for topic branches). Hope this helps. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.
