contrib/gcc_update does not work

[Jonathan Wakely]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 10:38, Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 11:34 AM Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 09:22, Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > gcc_update, when called from newly initialized and pulled tree does not work:
> >
> > Initialized how?
>
>  1035  mkdir gcc
>  1036  cd gcc
>  1037  git init
>  1038  git pull https://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git

Don't do that :-)

You've created an new, empty repository and then filled it with the
content from gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc but that's not the same as making a
clone of that repo. You could make it the same, but you'd have to do a
lot more steps manually. Just use 'git clone'.

> > If you do a 'git clone' then it correctly checks out master and sets
> > it to track origin/master.
>
> I see, I'll try this now.