Re: [GENERAL] cloning postgres-xc

[Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net>]

On 2/13/13, Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
> Here's what I just tried:
>
> cd postgresql.git/
> git remote add -f --tags -m master pgxc
> git://postgres-xc.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/postgres-xc/postgres-xc

Please note, the above two lines should be one, forgot to manually format sorry.

> # this resulted in only 8.6MiB download just now,
> # on an up-to-date pg.git repo.
>
> #view results:
> git remote -v
> git branch -a
>
> In my case, remotes/pgxc/HEAD is the only pgxc 'branch' so it appears
> I'm not quite doing something right. Looking at the repo summary page
> at:
> http://postgres-xc.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=postgres-xc/postgres-xc;a=summary
> suggests that there are a number of 'heads' which I assume are branches.
> My ~/.gitconfig only has user name and email, so nothing there should
> be stopping the branches from being downloaded.
>
> I guess I'm missing something in my command above. From my reading of
> man git-remote it should do the trick...
>
> Anyone know what's wrong with it?

I just tried the following:

$ git remote set-branches --add master pgxc/master
fatal: No such remote 'master'

??