Graham et al, In the instructions for getting the source code, why not just use git-clone? Is there a difference? The currently suggested method of remote-add + checkout produces a bunch of warnings (below).
Andrew and...@obi-wan:~$ mkdir lilypond-web and...@obi-wan:~$ cd lilypond-web and...@obi-wan:~/lilypond-web$ git init-db Initialized empty Git repository in /home/andrew/lilypond-web/.git/ and...@obi-wan:~/lilypond-web$ git remote add -f -t web -m web origin git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git/ Updating origin warning: no common commits remote: Counting objects: 12367, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3257/3257), done. remote: Total 12367 (delta 9143), reused 12249 (delta 9065) Receiving objects: 100% (12367/12367), 11.39 MiB | 313 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (9143/9143), done. >From git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond * [new branch] web -> origin/web and...@obi-wan:~/lilypond-web$ git checkout -b web origin/web warning: You appear to be on a branch yet to be born. warning: Forcing checkout of origin/web. Branch web set up to track remote branch refs/remotes/origin/web. Switched to a new branch "web" _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel