From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why won't git checkout a branch?
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 06:09:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH8yC8kxY5mV0p-98W0uDN7PLxmNR4LkNcz9vbKsq21aTd-qQg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tuyrd0ng.fsf@igel.home>
On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 5:50 AM Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>
> On Jul 01 2020, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>
> > $ git checkout m4
>
> Try a newer git version:
>
> $ git checkout m4
> fatal: 'm4' could be both a local file and a tracking branch.
> Please use -- (and optionally --no-guess) to disambiguate
Ack, thanks.
This does not look normal, either. I don't want to create a new
branch. I want to work on the existing branch.
$ git checkout origin/m4
Note: checking out 'origin/m4'.
You are in 'detached HEAD' state. You can look around, make experimental
changes and commit them, and you can discard any commits you make in this
state without impacting any branches by performing another checkout.
If you want to create a new branch to retain commits you create, you may
do so (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example:
git checkout -b <new-branch-name>
HEAD is now at 5c3967f Merge branch 'm4' of
https://github.com/noloader/libb2 into m4
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-01 10:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-01 8:41 Why won't git checkout a branch? Jeffrey Walton
2020-07-01 9:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-07-01 10:09 ` Jeffrey Walton [this message]
2020-07-01 10:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-07-01 10:45 ` Jeffrey Walton
2020-07-01 15:13 ` Chris Torek
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