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jww
jww

Reputation: 102296

How to make git accept a URL?

I'm trying to perform the equivalent of a Subversion checkout to a revision. In SVN, this is one step. According to How to clone git repository with specific revision/changeset? I am supposed to be able to git remote add origin url://to/source/repository:

# git remote add git://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
usage: git remote add [<options>] <name> <url>

    -f, --fetch           fetch the remote branches
    ...

Here's the information I have to work with:

Could you try whether applying the patch I pointed at (e0fd7c47bd) on the 7.10
branch fixes the internal error?

I'm guessing he means GDB's Git, and the revision hash is e0fd7c47bd.

How do I make Git accept the URL provided by the project?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 189

Answers (2)

AD7six
AD7six

Reputation: 66237

I'm trying to perform the equivalent of a Subversion checkout to a revision

This is much simpler than the question implies. It's two steps:

$ git clone git://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
$ cd binutils-gdb
$ git checkout 7.10

Unless there is a problem doing the above, nothing else is required.

Upvotes: 3

ryanpcmcquen
ryanpcmcquen

Reputation: 6465

You need to name the remote, so you could do:

git remote add sourceware git://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git

Upvotes: 4

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