Setup question for the local git repo from github

[John Ralls]

On Apr 29, 2011, at 12:35 PM, Christian Stimming wrote:

> Dear John,
> 
> I'm trying to follow again the advice on 
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Git
> but I'm running into an error message that is not yet mentioned on that page. 
> Here are the commands I'm running:
> 
> git clone git://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git  gnucash-github.git
> cd gnucash-github.git/
> git branch -t master refs/heads/trunk
> git checkout master
> git svn init --stdlayout svn+ssh://cstim@svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash
> git-update
> 
> But at this point the "git-update" script results in the following error:
> 
>> You asked to pull from the remote 'origin', but did not specify
>> a branch. Because this is not the default configured remote
>> for your current branch, you must specify a branch on the command line.
>> pull --rebase origin: command returned error: 1
> 
> This is git-1.7.0.4. I then tried to run
> 
>  git-update trunk
> 
> which seemed to give me what I expected. But running the command again will 
> still give me the above error message. Only if I run this with the additional 
> "trunk" command I'll get what I expected.
> 
> What am I missing?
> 

That you're checked out in the "master" branch and the github repo doesn't have one of those. 
I think that if you add 
[branch "master"]
        remote = origin
        merge = refs/heads/trunk
to your .git/config git will know what you want to update.

Regards,
John Ralls