gitlab question.

[Uri Simchoni]

It's git fu that you probably already know :)

git remote add gitlab git at gitlab.com:samba-team/devel/samba.git
git fetch gitlab
git checkout -b slow-bug13964 gitlab/slow-bug13964

Uri.

On 5/24/19 8:43 PM, Jeremy Allison via samba-technical wrote:
> Asking to improve my gitlab-fu :-).
> 
> Ralph has a branch containing modifications
> to a patchset I posted here:
> 
> https://gitlab.com/samba-team/devel/samba/tree/slow-bug13964
> 
> I want to check out that branch so I can
> see his changes as a list of git refs
> (i.e. I want to checkout a copy of the
> repo it created for him).
> 
> How do I do that ?
> 
> There's no link on the webpage showing how
> to do that.
> 
> All there is is a button with cloud icon
> with arrow pointing down, which when clicked
> on (hurrah, it was a "Download" button,
> wish it had actual *text* in it so you
> didn't have to guess what the icons meant
> but there you go) shows the options of
> 
> (off topic, web accessibility is a hot
> topic at the moment. I don't think these
> icons work for that).
> 
> "Download source code" as "zip", "tar.gz",
> "tar.bz2" or "tar".
> 
> OK, maybe that's it - download the tar.gz,
> unpack.
> 
> Nope, just a snapshot of the source code,
> no git information included. Not useful.
> 
> Anyone know how to do this ?
> 
> Aren't web interfaces wonderful :-) :-).
> 
> (yes I understand the irony, given my
> employer :-).
> 
> FYI, this isn't a gitlab whine even though
> it sounds like it - it's helped us do more
> things better than we were doing previously.
> 
> I'd just like to make easy things easy :-).
> 
> I'm happy to have this email forwarded to gitlab
> developers if anyone thinks this will help !
> 
> Jeremy.
>