git.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: Sudipta GHOSH <sudipta.in@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: remote branch checkout issue, why its *(no branch)
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:24:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081128232459.GA5956@atjola.homenet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3k5anjxcd.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On 2008.11.28 14:32:56 -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> What you can do is to create _local_ branch, closely tied to
> remote-tracking branch 'origin/B1', by using:
> 
>   $ git branch -b B1 --track origin/B1

You mixed up checkout and branch there ;-)

It's either

git branch B1 origin/B1 # Just create a branch B1

or

git checkout -b B1 origin/B1 # Create and checkout B1

I omitted the "--track" as, by default, it is implied when you create a
new branch from a remote tracking branch.

Björn

      reply	other threads:[~2008-11-28 23:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-28 22:15 remote branch checkout issue, why its *(no branch) Sudipta GHOSH
2008-11-28 22:32 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-11-28 23:24   ` Björn Steinbrink [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20081128232459.GA5956@atjola.homenet \
    --to=b.steinbrink@gmx.de \
    --cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=jnareb@gmail.com \
    --cc=sudipta.in@gmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).