Re: git checkout and pwd?
John Dlugosz, 08.04.2009:
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> On a Windows system running msysgit, I entered the command:
>
> git checkout -b -l jmd/mt_queue
>
> and got a reply of:
> fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching
> branches.
> Did you intend to checkout 'compile.vc8/Win32/release/jmd/mt_queue'
> which can not be resolved as commit?
>From the documentation: [-b <new_branch> [-l]]
The new branch has to follow the -b option immediately.
> Is there something about this form of checkout that requires that it be
> issued while in the "top level" directory of the project (i.e. the one
> containing the .git subdirectory)?
No, that doesn't matter.
Markus
Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>