Re: git fork help (Was RE: Membership request for group GNU LilyPond Music Typesetter)

[Carl D . Sorensen]

Patrick McCarty <pnorcks <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Carl D. Sorensen 
<c_sorensen <at> byu.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> > [...snip...]
> >
> > I have no idea how to get started on this.  
> > Can you give me any suggestions?
> 
> Hi Carl,
> 
> The reason this is not working is because your forked repository
> (csorensen.git) somehow does not have a 'master' branch, and git-clone
> only seems to work if the remote repository has a master branch.
> 
> So...
> 
> Instead, I was able to retrieve your repository (named 'localtest')
> using 'git-remote add':
> 
> $ mkdir csorensen
> $ cd csorensen
> $ git init
> $ git remote add -f -t localtest origin 
> git://repo.or.cz/lilypond/csorensen.git
> $ git checkout origin/localtest
> 
> After you checkout this remote branch, you might want to create a
> local branch from it:
> 
> $ git checkout -b my-branch
> 
> All of your files should be in the working directory now, hopefully.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> -Patrick
> 


THANK YOU!  It worked like a charm.  I think I'm finally 
(after 8 months) ready to get fret-diagram-details integrated 
into LilyPond!  And after that, I should be able to get a 
property in for the variable string thickness that was 
requested on -user a couple of weeks ago.

I appreciate all your help, Johannes and Patrick!

Carl