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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-checkout sometimes silently fails
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 17:19:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v4p9bge4q.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080506171052.340d643e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (Andrew Morton's message of "Tue, 6 May 2008 17:10:52 -0700")

Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> y:/usr/src/git26> git-branch -av | grep '^\*'
> * master               5717922 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb
> y:/usr/src/git26> git-checkout linux-next    
> Switched to branch "linux-next"
> y:/usr/src/git26> git-branch -av | grep '^\*'
> * linux-next           5717922 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb

So your two local branches 'master' and 'linux-next' both point at the
same commit, 5717922.

"git checkout <branchname>" is to check out the local branch name.  You
expect "git checkout master" and then "git checkout linux-next" to check
out two different commits because linux-next _should_ have been updated to
the latest from sfr repository.  But it appears to me that that is not the
case.

Perhaps "git fetch linux-next" hasn't been run, before "git checkout" was
attempted?

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-07  0:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-06 19:22 git-checkout sometimes silently fails Andrew Morton
2008-05-06 21:50 ` Alex Riesen
2008-05-07  0:10   ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-07  0:19     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-05-07  0:43       ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-07 15:09       ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-05-07  0:19     ` Jeff King
2008-05-07  0:54       ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-07  1:32         ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-05-07  8:51     ` Johannes Sixt

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