If you updated compiz today from git (like any awesome person would), you probably would have noticed the following error:
User@XPS-SUSE:~/Source/Compiz-Fusion/personal/compiz> git pull origin master fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly User@XPS-SUSE:~/Source/Compiz-Fusion/personal/compiz>
It’s actually
git clone git://git.compiz-fusion.org/compiz/core * git checkout -b origin/compiz-0.8 --track
*Tentatively
Stay tuned for updates.
Alternative Fax 
“(like any awesome person would)”
Then why do they need to checkout 0.8 😉 any awesome person would be using ‘compiz++’ 😛
Of course, but to users… ‘OMG THERE IS NO CUBE!’
one question: if i use old master compiz (now inactive) and so i have compiz folder cloned, i can follow 2 alternatives:
1. rm compiz and reclone it following your cmd
2. can i switch branch to compiz-0.8 and git pull? i have this problem:
git checkout -b compiz-0.8
M po/Makefile.in.in
Switched to a new branch “compiz-0.8”
git pull
You asked me to pull without telling me which branch you
want to merge with, and ‘branch.compiz-0.8.merge’ in
your configuration file does not tell me either. Please
name which branch you want to merge on the command line and
try again (e.g. ‘git pull ‘).
you need to use ‘git checkout -b compiz-0.8 –track origin/compiz-0.8
some-guy: your cmd is right if you clone, but i have already compiz, running your cmd:
fatal: git checkout: branch compiz-0.8 already exists
try just ‘git checkout origin/compiz-0.8’