On Oct 12, 11:01 pm, David Doria <[email protected]> wrote:
> Good idea. I tried to do that, but the diff command fails:
>
> [dor...@doriadjec VTK-PCA]$ git remote add kitware git://vtk.org/VTK.git
> [dor...@doriadjec VTK-PCA]$ git fetch kitware master
> remote: Counting objects: 6937, done.
> ...
> * branch master -> FETCH_HEAD
> [dor...@doriadjec VTK-PCA]$ git log --oneline VTK-PCA ^remotes/kitware/master
> fatal: bad revision '^remotes/kitware/master'
>
> I also tried without the ^ (I didn't know if it was a typo)
>
> [dor...@doriadjec VTK-PCA]$ git log --oneline VTK-PCA remotes/kitware/master
> fatal: ambiguous argument 'remotes/kitware/master': unknown revision or path
> not
> Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
>
> [dor...@doriadjec VTK-PCA]$ git branch
> * VTK-PCA
> VTK-daviddoria
Well, git fetch with explicitly specified refspecs does not auto-
create any branches and instead writes references to what it fetched
into .git/FETCH_FEAD, so to get a real branch created you have to
actually name it, like this:
$ git fetch -n kitware master:kwmaster
will create a local branch "kwmaster" which would contain the same
object as "master" in the "kitware" repository ("-n" tells git-fetch
not to fetch tags reachable via that branch's history).
Sorry for confusion.
The "^" prefix used with revisions fed to git-log is used for
exclusion, that is,
$ git log a ^b
means "show commits reachable from a but exclude those reachable from
b". See the section about ranges in git-rev-parse manual page.
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