little git help? (was: Re: G965 framebuffer driver?)

[Jesse Barnes]

On Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:01 pm Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:58:40 -0500
>
> "Alex Deucher" <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Nope.  drm git on freedesktop.org
> >
> > http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=mesa/drm.git;a=shortlog;h=modesett
> >ing-101
>
> How do I get a copy of this using git?
>
> $ git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/drm/
>
> I thought I should then do:
>
> $ git checkout modesetting-101
>
> but this doesn't work because:
>
> $ git branch
> * master
> $

git checkout -b modesetting-101 origin/modesetting-101

at least I think that'll work... git branch -r will list it.

Jesse