Re: tiling possibly xinerama-aware

[Janek Kozicki <janek_listy wp pl>]

Christopher Roy Bratusek said:     (by the date of Sun, 08 May 2011 16:53:33 +0200)

> Am 08.05.2011 16:41, schrieb Janek Kozicki:
> > Christopher Roy Bratusek said:     (by the date of Sun, 08 May 2011 07:05:34 +0200)
> >
> >>> can you tell me how to checkout this branch?
> >>> This will save me time trying to figure this out.
> >> git branch --track -b edge-actions-1.9 remotes/origin/edge-actions-1.9
> >> git checkout master to return to HEAD
> > I will try to build a debian package with this branch, install it,
> > and then restart sawfish.
> the packaing scripts in 1.8.1/1.8.90 are broken. I'll take some time 
> next weekend
> to fix them, so you should do a manual install (which is so or so the 
> same in the
> end, except for apt).

hmm.. can I wait? :)

 
> > It's been a long time, so no wonder I have some problems here :)
> >
> > $ git branch --track -b edge-actions-1.9 remotes/origin/edge-actions-1.9
> >
> > fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount parent )
> > Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).
> >
> > I guess I need to git clone first, from where? :)
> 
>  From the new repo: git://git.tuxfamily.org/gitroot/sawfish/main.git
> See also: http://sawfish.tuxfamily.org

oh, nice :)


hmm.. will it work without `-b' option?

what git version do you use? did they just add -b ?

$ git clone git://git.tuxfamily.org/gitroot/sawfish/main.git
Cloning into main...
remote: Counting objects: 39163, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (10907/10907), done.
remote: Total 39163 (delta 27414), reused 38628 (delta 27028)
Receiving objects: 100% (39163/39163), 13.50 MiB | 3.05 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (27414/27414), done.

$ ls
main

$ cd main
$ git branch --track -b edge-actions-1.9 remotes/origin/edge-actions-1.9
error: unknown switch `b'
usage: git branch [options] [-r | -a] [--merged | --no-merged]
   or: git branch [options] [-l] [-f] <branchname> [<start-point>]
   or: git branch [options] [-r] (-d | -D) <branchname>
   or: git branch [options] (-m | -M) [<oldbranch>] <newbranch>
(... snip git help ...)

$ git --version
git version 1.7.5.1


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