From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:24:59 GMT
Subject: Re: remote branch checkout issue, why its *(no branch)
Message-ID: <20081128232459.GA5956@atjola.homenet>
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