Re: Data copy error

[Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>]

On 2016.07.24 12:57, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Am 24.07.16 18:21 schrieb(en) Andreas Schmidt:

> > pc@lektoratex:~/System/git$ git clone  
> > http://git.gnome.org/browse/balsa
>
> This is the old (balsa 2.4) branch.  If you want to have the "new"  
> one (using gtk3, and all latest improvements), you need to clone the  
> "gtk3" branch:
>
> git clone -b gtk3 http://git.gnome.org/browse/balsa

This came up recently on another list I'm on.  Doing a new git clone  
and specifying the branch just wastes bandwidth.  The original git  
clone you did already includes ALL branches.  You simply need to cd  
into the balsa directory and then do "git checkout gtk3".  (I know it's  
not intuitive, and you might expect to use the git branch command.  Git  
is funny like that - the commands are not always obvious.)  You can see  
all the branches with "git branch -a".  Just remember to do a "git  
pull" on occasion, to be sure you get the latest updates.

Jack