[SCM] x264 packaging branch, karmic, created. 0c2781c658077d7a0d96e38d9f8735ed363443f7

[Reinhard Tartler]

Fabian Greffrath <greffrath at leat.rub.de> writes:

>> Fabian, do you want to take a look at the package? I've removed everyone
>> but me from uploaders because I'm really not sure who wants to work on
>> the package. Of course everyone is welcome, so everyone feel free to
>> send in patches and add yourself to debian/control.
>
> I wanted to clone the repo and add myself to the uploaders but got the
> following "warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to
> checkout." and an empty repo. :(

That's interesting. It seems that I'm doing strange things with
git. Here is my analysis what happened:

In the x264 repo, there is no branch 'master' yet, but .git/HEAD points
to 'ref: refs/heads/master'. git-clone(1) succeeds with cloning the
directory, but does not know what branch to switch to.

Fabian, in that empty repo, please type the following:

$ git branch -l -r
  origin/karmic
  origin/upstream

(that's the output for me)

$ git checkout -b master origin/karmic

This will create a local 'master' branch. There you can do all
customisations, editing whatever that you seem fit for debian and just
push that branch as you do all the time (replace alioth with the name of
the 'remote' you are using):

$ git push alioth master

this should get you back on track.

If you are having problems, I'll create the master branch for you. I'll
leave it to you right now to confirm that my understanding of git is
correct (I still do not feel myself as git master, so I'm still guessing
a bit).

-- 
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4