Cannot export all my repos about vcstool HOT 4 CLOSED

Your branches branch1 / branch2 are likely not tracking a remote branch. I assume you can't call git pull for those successfully either. Can you confirm this?

This can happen if you have create the branches only locally or only pushed them a remote without using -u. If this is the case git does not know which remote branch you local branch is associated to and therefore vcstool can't generate a url / version for it.

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Hi Dirk,

Both repos have the origin remote properly set (I regularly pull). These branches are created with git checkout -b and then I push them (usually without the -u option), but I can do git pull origin branchX in all cases.

However, you are right :) After doing git push -u origin branchX I got the message
Branch X set up to track remote branch X from origin. Everything up-to-date

And now there it no warning (it is surprising that my other repos are working, I never do the -u!). Thank you so much!

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@jvgomez just as a note: On recent git versions, if you check out a remote branch as a local branch for the first time using git checkout my-branch (which works as long as my-branch is unique among your remotes), then the local branch is set up to be tracking automagically.

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I see, and now everything makes sense, thank you @NikolausDemmel !

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