From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: git checkout won't detach head when a reference equals the detach point
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 18:41:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702181841.36203.andyparkins@gmail.com> (raw)
Hello,
Kind of convoluted, and perhaps not even an error.
On a repository with a remote tracking branch, say
remotes/origin/master, then do this:
git checkout -b temp origin/master
git checkout origin/master
git branch
* temp
This might seem like an odd thing to want to do, but I found this
because the next thing I wanted to do was
git branch -D temp
Which won't work because the branch hasn't changed.
Andy
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Dr Andrew Parkins, M Eng (Hons), AMIEE
andyparkins@gmail.com
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