From: Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>
To: Git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Odd error when doing "clone && cd && checkout -b"
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 23:00:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100203070016.GA18089@vfb-9.home> (raw)
In talking with someone in the IRC channel, I ran across something that
I thought was very odd behavior. I'm sure there's a very simple
explanation, but I can't think of what it might be.
The person was getting "fatal: git checkout: updating paths is
incompatible with switching branches.", when they tried to create a new
tracking branch, and switch to it, with a fresh clone. I was able to
reproduce this, but only by one-lining the "clone && cd && checkout -b".
When the "checkout -b" fails from the one-lined version, immediately
doing the "checkout -b" on its own succeeds.
The output below is from zsh (4.3.10), however I get the exact same
behavior when I run the commands using bash (4.0.33). I was testing
this using Git 1.6.6.1.598.g661e2.
== One-lined Version ==
vfb-9 ~/tmp % git clone git://github.com/rich97/CakeCMP.git && cd CakeCMP && git checkout -b permissions-rewrite origin/permissions-rewrite
Initialized empty shared Git repository in /home/jhe/tmp/CakeCMP/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 1508, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1432/1432), done.
remote: Total 1508 (delta 256), reused 1235 (delta 60)
Receiving objects: 100% (1508/1508), 844.43 KiB | 104 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (256/256), done.
fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches.
Did you intend to checkout 'origin/permissions-rewrite' which can not be resolved as commit?
vfb-9 ~/tmp/CakeCMP on master(a026490) sigexit % git checkout -b permissions-rewrite origin/permission-rewrite
Branch permissions-rewrite set up to track remote branch permission-rewrite from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'permissions-rewrite'
== Running "checkout -b" on its own ==
vfb-9 ~/tmp % git clone git://github.com/rich97/CakeCMP.git && cd CakeCMP
Initialized empty shared Git repository in /home/jhe/tmp/CakeCMP/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 1508, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1432/1432), done.
remote: Total 1508 (delta 256), reused 1235 (delta 60)
Receiving objects: 100% (1508/1508), 844.43 KiB | 93 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (256/256), done.
vfb-9 ~/tmp/CakeCMP on master(a026490) % git checkout -b permissions-rewrite origin/permission-rewrite
Branch permissions-rewrite set up to track remote branch permission-rewrite from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'permissions-rewrite'
vfb-9 ~/tmp/CakeCMP on permissions-rewrite(ca687f1) % git --version
git version 1.6.6.1.598.g661e2
-Jacob
next reply other threads:[~2010-02-03 7:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-03 7:00 Jacob Helwig [this message]
2010-02-03 7:40 ` Odd error when doing "clone && cd && checkout -b" Johannes Sixt
2010-02-03 13:25 ` Jacob Helwig
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