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Subject: Re: checking out branches: tracking vs. tags
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On 05/24/2012 11:21 AM, Chris Larson wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 7:55 AM, jfabernathy<jfabernathy@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> the Development Manual Appendix A
>> (http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#dev-manual-bsp-appendix),
>> I see the statement:
>>
>>   $ git checkout denzil-7.0 -b denzil
>>
>>
>> What I think this does is create me a local branch that is fixed to what was
>> committed when the denzil-7.0 tag was created and it will remain that way
>> and will not track the denzil branch as it gets updated.  Right????
>>
>> Now if I want to track the denzil branch as changes are committed, I think I
>> do the following.
>>
>>   $ git checkout origin/denzil -b denzil
>>
>>
>> Now I can do git pull commands to get the updates that are committed.
>> Right??
> Your arguments are backwards. See git help checkout.
I looked at git help and man git, but it is still unclear because if I 
do the first one where I checkout using the tag, I cannot git pull at 
all; I get an error, about not enough information to merge.  However, if 
I use the name of the branch I can now do git pull when changes are 
committed to denzil.  That's why I thought I understood it.  But who knows.

Jim A