Re: Converting from anonymous git clone to eponymous

[Simos Xenitellis <simos lists googlemail com>]

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 20:21 +0100, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
>> I did some more testing and I have put up a temporary page at
>> http://live.gnome.org/SimosXenitellis/GitConvertAnonymousToEponymous
>>
>> The gist is that if you have an anonymous clone, you can convert to
>> eponymous with the following four commands,
>>
>> 1. git remote rm origin
>> 2. git remote add origin -f -m master
>> ssh://MYUSERNAME git gnome org/git/MODULENAME/
>> 3. git config branch.master.remote origin
>> 4. git config branch.master.merge refs/heads/master
>
> Isn't
>
>  git config remote.origin.url ssh://MYUSERNAME git gnome org/git/MODULENAME/
>
> enough? (I usually just edit .git/config with an editor, but the above
> should be the same thing.)

When you try to 'git pull --rebase', the command fails because git
does not know that it should pull from 'master'.
Only by using the four commands above, can the MODULENAME/.git/config
file of the anonymous clone become identical with the .git/config of
an eponymous clone of the same MODULE.

Simos

>>
>> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:41 AM, Simos Xenitellis
>> <simos lists googlemail com> wrote:
>> > I am trying to find what is the best way to convert an anonymous clone
>> > to a non-anonymous (eponymous?) clone. I could not locate any
>> > definitive information by searching,
>> > which is probably due to not searching with the correct keywords.
>> >
>> > Are there any comments to the following?
>> >
>> > $ git clone git://git.gnome.org/git/eog
>> > ...
>> > $ cd eog
>> > $ git remote rm origin
>> > $ git remote add -f -m master origin ssh://MYUSERNAME git gnome org/git/eog/
>> > Updating origin
>> > From ssh://simos git gnome org/git/eog
>> >  * [new branch]      EOG_2_12_1 -> origin/EOG_2_12_1
>> >  * [new branch]      GCONF_BRANCH2 -> origin/GCONF_BRANCH2
>> >  * [new branch]      GNOME_2_12_BRANCHPOINT -> origin/GNOME_2_12_BRANCHPOINT
>> >  * [new branch]      GNOME_2_PORT -> origin/GNOME_2_PORT
>> >  * [new branch]      eog-0-6    -> origin/eog-0-6
>> >  * [new branch]      eog-for-gnome-1-4 -> origin/eog-for-gnome-1-4
>> >  * [new branch]      eog-ng     -> origin/eog-ng
>> >  * [new branch]      experimental-job-mgr -> origin/experimental-job-mgr
>> >  * [new branch]      gnome-2-0  -> origin/gnome-2-0
>> >  * [new branch]      gnome-2-10 -> origin/gnome-2-10
>> >  * [new branch]      gnome-2-12 -> origin/gnome-2-12
>> >  * [new branch]      gnome-2-14 -> origin/gnome-2-14
>> >  * [new branch]      gnome-2-16 -> origin/gnome-2-16
>> >  * [new branch]      gnome-2-18 -> origin/gnome-2-18
>> >  * [new branch]      gnome-2-18_svn3671 -> origin/gnome-2-18_svn3671
>> >  * [new branch]      gnome-2-2  -> origin/gnome-2-2
>> >  * [new branch]      gnome-2-20 -> origin/gnome-2-20
>> >  * [new branch]      gnome-2-22 -> origin/gnome-2-22
>> >  * [new branch]      gnome-2-24 -> origin/gnome-2-24
>> >  * [new branch]      gnome-2-26 -> origin/gnome-2-26
>> >  * [new branch]      gnome-2-4  -> origin/gnome-2-4
>> >  * [new branch]      gnome-2-6  -> origin/gnome-2-6
>> >  * [new branch]      gnome-2-8  -> origin/gnome-2-8
>> >  * [new branch]      master     -> origin/master
>> > $ git pull --rebase
>> > Current branch master is up to date.
>> > $ git remote show origin
>> > * remote origin
>> >  URL: ssh://MYUSERNAME git gnome org/git/eog/
>> >  Tracked remote branch
>> >    master
>> > $ _
>> >
>> > An eponymous clone looks like
>> >
>> > $ git remote show origin
>> > * remote origin
>> >  URL: ssh://MYUSERNAME git gnome org/git/eog
>> >  Remote branch merged with 'git pull' while on branch master
>> >    master
>> >  Tracked remote branches
>> >    EOG_2_12_1
>> >    GCONF_BRANCH2
>> >    GNOME_2_12_BRANCHPOINT
>> >    GNOME_2_PORT
>> >    eog-0-6
>> >    eog-for-gnome-1-4
>> >    eog-ng
>> >    experimental-job-mgr
>> >    gnome-2-0
>> >    gnome-2-10
>> >    gnome-2-12
>> >    gnome-2-14
>> >    gnome-2-16
>> >    gnome-2-18
>> >    gnome-2-18_svn3671
>> >    gnome-2-2
>> >    gnome-2-20
>> >    gnome-2-22
>> >    gnome-2-24
>> >    gnome-2-26
>> >    gnome-2-4
>> >    gnome-2-6
>> >    gnome-2-8
>> >    master
>> > $ _
>> >
>> > The issue I have at the moment is that
>> >
>> > git pull --rebase
>> >
>> > does not work unless I specify  'git pull --rebase origin master'. How
>> > do I set these values by default?
>> >
>> > Simos
>> >
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