Re: [gentoo-perl] perl-5.10.1_rc2 and patches

[Kent Fredric]

Read all of my response before doing anything ;)

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Sergiy Borodych <bor@×××××××××.ua> wrote:


> portage # cd /usr/local/portage/layman/perl-experimental
> perl-experimental # git checkout -b alternatives alternatives
> fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching
> branches.
> Did you intend to checkout 'alternatives' which can not be resolved as
> commit?


I Meant 'git checkout -b alternatives origin/alternatives' , which checkouts
out the remote branch 'alternatives' ( on origin  ) locally.



> I think you mean
>
> git checkout -b alternatives
> git pull origin alternatives


Nah, that would just give you 2 copies of master with different names. Git
'checkout -b alternatives'  just checks out the current branch under the
name 'alternatives', not what you want.  'git pull origin alternatives' will
then *merge* the foreign branch called "alternatives" into the local branch
called "alternatives" ( a derivative of master) , which is not necessarily
what you want in all cases.

git checkout -b NewbranchName remoteName/branchname

Is how I recommend you check out branches locally.


> ?
>
> But now layman -S give me error :(
> "
> From git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/perl-overlay
>   3ddbd1a..43666a7  master     -> origin/master
> You asked me to pull without telling me which branch you
> want to merge with, and 'branch.alternatives.merge' in
> your configuration file does not tell me either.        Please
> specify which branch you want to merge on the command line and
> try again (e.g. 'git pull <repository> <refspec>').
> See git-pull(1) for details.
> "
>

This is because above, you appeared to have created a new branch called
'alternatives' with no remote name.

So when you run "git pull -u -v" in that checked out branch ( what layman
does ), it will be going "Ok, you want to update the current branch, hold
on, the hell? update from what?!.


>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Anyway, thanks for advice :)
>
> P.S.
> 5.10.1 out - woohoo :)
>
> --
> Sergiy Borodych
> http://bor.org.ua
>
>

But you no longer need to worry about the branch, as we just merged the
branch back into master :D

Note, we have 5.10.1 out, *and in overlay* now :D

$ cd /tmp/
$ mkdir overlay
$ cd overlay
$ git clone git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/perl-overlay

Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/overlay/perl-overlay/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 11533, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (6340/6340), done.
remote: Total 11533 (delta 6653), reused 8927 (delta 5110)
Receiving objects: 100% (11533/11533), 2.14 MiB | 426 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (6653/6653), done.

$ cd perl-overlay/
$ find dev-lang/perl

dev-lang/perl/
dev-lang/perl/perl-5.10.1-r11.ebuild
dev-lang/perl/metadata.xml
dev-lang/perl/Manifest
dev-lang/perl/ChangeLog

$ git pull -u -v

From git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/perl-overlay
 = [up to date]      master     -> origin/master
Already up-to-date.



-- 
Kent

perl -e  "print substr( \"edrgmaM  SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 )
for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );"

http://kent-fredric.fox.geek.nz