CM 1.1 git question

[Andrew Hawryluk]

Graham et al,

In the instructions for getting the source code, why not just use
git-clone? Is there a difference? The currently suggested method of
remote-add + checkout produces a bunch of warnings (below).

Andrew



address@hidden:~$ mkdir lilypond-web
address@hidden:~$ cd lilypond-web
address@hidden:~/lilypond-web$ git init-db
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/andrew/lilypond-web/.git/
address@hidden:~/lilypond-web$ git remote add -f -t web -m web origin
git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git/
Updating origin
warning: no common commits
remote: Counting objects: 12367, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3257/3257), done.
remote: Total 12367 (delta 9143), reused 12249 (delta 9065)
Receiving objects: 100% (12367/12367), 11.39 MiB | 313 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (9143/9143), done.
>From git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond
 * [new branch]      web        -> origin/web
address@hidden:~/lilypond-web$ git checkout -b web origin/web
warning: You appear to be on a branch yet to be born.
warning: Forcing checkout of origin/web.
Branch web set up to track remote branch refs/remotes/origin/web.
Switched to a new branch "web"