What's cooking in erlang/otp excerpt

[Raimo Niskanen]

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:14:12AM -0700, Jay Nelson wrote:
> 
> > Thanks. Included in 'pu', squashed with the original into one commit,
> > with whitespace fixes.
> 
> > If possible, please base further work on the squashed commit,
> > i.e 540dbcc2a1fdc59e56aaf69ea9f2b0c4b59eebe4 that you can use
> > after fetching 'pu'.
> 
> I've got the basics of git, but I always seem to have problems if I  
> do anything fancy.  I did 'git fetch' and 'git pull upstream dev' and  
> then I could see 540dbcc with 'git log'.
> 
> I believe I then should have just done 'git branch 540dbcc' but I  
> think at some point I deleted my branch and tried again.  Eventually  
> I got the changes locally but when I tried to push them up, it said  
> there was no remote branch.
> 
> I have since tried lots of things, eventually getting the message  
> "Your branch is ahead of 'origin/dev' by 276 commits" (not sure how  
> that happened).
> 
> I did 'rm -rf otp' and started fresh from the instructions on the web  
> site to track a new branch, but I am still in the 276 commits ahead  
> of dev mode and I now can no longer see 540dbcc.  'git remote -v'  
> doesn't show 'pu' or any other branches, just origin and upstream.

'git remote -v' only shows you your remotes.
You probably want 'git branch -a' or 'git branch -r'.

> 
> Anybody have any advice how to get things back in sync?

With your new repository with remotes origin and upstream
where origin is your clone and upstream is erlang/opt, e.g:

    git fetch upstream pu
    git branch pu upstream/pu
    git checkout -b jn/gen_stream 540dbcc
    
> 
> 
> On May 21, 2010, at 3:00 AM, Raimo Niskanen wrote:
> 
> >* jn/gen_stream (stdlib) (2010-05-17) 1 commit
> > - Add new gen_stream behaviour for efficiently consuming serial  
> >streams (540dbcc)
> >
> >This topic branch has failing test cases.
> >
> >stdlib_suite:app_test;
> >    gen_stream is not included in the stdlib.app file.
> 
> lib/stdlib/src/stdlib.app.src  =>  add the following line after  
> 'gen_server,'
> gen_stream,
> 
> 
> Also missing was my change to lib/stdlib/doc/src/ref_man.xml => add  
> the following line after '<xi:include href="gen_server.xml">'
> <xi:include href="gen_stream.xml">
> 
> >
> >shell_SUITE:start_restricted_from_shell;
> >    Although the whole pu branch could be guilty
> >    this topic branch is our prime suspect.
> 
> The line of the failure is running rr(...)   I don't really see how  
> gen_stream could have affected this.  I may be mistaken, but it isn't  
> clear how the interaction could occur.
> 
> >
> >Action expected from: Topic author
> >
> >-- 
> >
> >/ Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
> >

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/ Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB