On Sep 3, 2009, at 2:31 AM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> In message "Re: [ruby-core:25313] Re: [Feature #2033] Move Core  
> Development to Git"
>    on Thu, 3 Sep 2009 16:02:38 +0900, Ron Mayer <rm_rails / cheapcomplexdevices.com 
> > writes:
>
> |Maybe as a small step in this direction the ruby project could first
> |publish an official svn->git conversion of their own (or adopt the
> |one on github.com/rubyspec) and insure that it's kept up-to-date?
>
> For various reasons, we cannot move to git at once, so as a small
> step, use <git://github.com/shyouhei/ruby.git>.  See
>
> http://wiki.github.com/shyouhei/ruby/committerhowto

There is a typo in that document.  This line:

% git checkout -b my_feature orogin/trunk

should be:

% git checkout -b my_feature origin/trunk

James Edward Gray II