From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: git-checkout sometimes silently fails Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 12:22:56 -0700 Message-ID: <20080506122256.04ca7d77.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 06 21:24:29 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JtSlv-00085l-9A for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 21:24:19 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757179AbYEFTXa (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 15:23:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757140AbYEFTXa (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 15:23:30 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:46229 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752542AbYEFTX3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 15:23:29 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m46JMuh9032550 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 6 May 2008 12:22:58 -0700 Received: from akpm.corp.google.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with SMTP id m46JMuNx023083 for ; Tue, 6 May 2008 12:22:56 -0700 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.776 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 140.211.169.13 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I've had this happen before and I don't know what to do to make it stop. Usually sufficient fiddling will prevent it from happening. y:/usr/src/git26> cat .git/branches/linux-next git+ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git y:/usr/src/git26> git-checkout master Switched to branch "master" y:/usr/src/git26> cat kernel/*.c|sum 34439 2057 y:/usr/src/git26> git-checkout linux-next Switched to branch "linux-next" y:/usr/src/git26> cat kernel/*.c|sum 34439 2057 y:/usr/src/git26> git-checkout origin Note: moving to "origin" which isn't a local branch If you want to create a new branch from this checkout, you may do so (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example: git checkout -b HEAD is now at 5717922... Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb y:/usr/src/git26> cat kernel/*.c|sum 34439 2057 y:/usr/src/git26> git --version git version 1.5.5.rc1 help?