http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-December/146671.html Without the patch from Ricky, the git branch cannot be anonymously updated from upstream with git-pull.
FYI the patch works. And until that patch is merged, if you ever clone a branched package, you'll need to run this on each branch: git remote set-url origin git://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/foo
Thanks for the patch. I have been planning on re-doing the whole -B logic to mimic what /usr/share/doc/git-*/contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir does, as it seems to do things better than we currently do in fedpkg. Not sure if I'll do that instead of taking this patch or not.
Tangentially related... It appears if you install fedpkg on a CentOS 5 system via EPEL, it doesn't like the logic: + fedpkg clone -a -B dropwatch Initialized empty Git repository in /home/curtis/src/fedora/PKGS/dropwatch/fedpkg.git/ remote: Counting objects: 87, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (46/46), done. remote: Total 87 (delta 34), reused 87 (delta 34) Receiving objects: 100% (87/87), 9.37 KiB, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (34/34), done. Could not clone: Could not locally clone f10/master from /home/curtis/src/fedora/PKGS/dropwatch/fedpkg.git: 'git clone --branch f10/master /home/curtis/src/fedora/PKGS/dropwatch/fedpkg.git f10' returned exit status 129: error: unknown option `branch' Upgrading git from 1.5.5.6-4.el5 to 1.7.3-1.el5.rf (via rpmforge) solved.
There is another bug about --branch not being a viable option on EL5's version of git.
Patch applied, this will be fixed in the next build of fedora-packager.
fedora-packager-0.5.3.0-1.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/fedora-packager-0.5.3.0-1.fc14
fedora-packager-0.5.3.0-1.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/fedora-packager-0.5.3.0-1.fc13
fedora-packager-0.5.3.0-1.el6 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 6. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/fedora-packager-0.5.3.0-1.el6
fedora-packager-0.5.3.0-1.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/fedora-packager-0.5.3.0-1.el5
fedora-packager-0.5.3.0-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update fedora-packager'. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/fedora-packager-0.5.3.0-1.el5
fedora-packager-0.5.3.0-1.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
fedora-packager-0.5.3.0-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
fedora-packager-0.5.3.0-1.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
fedora-packager-0.5.5.0-1.el6 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 6. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/fedora-packager-0.5.5.0-1.el6
fedora-packager-0.5.5.0-2.el6 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 6. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/fedora-packager-0.5.5.0-2.el6
fedora-packager-0.5.5.0-2.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.