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Subject: Re: remote branch checkout issue, why its *(no branch)
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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:
>=20
>   $ 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.

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