From: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:38:15 GMT
Subject: Re: git checkout and pwd?
Message-ID: <200904082038.16133.markus.heidelberg@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <450196A1AAAE4B42A00A8B27A59278E70A99A3D6@EXCHANGE.trad.tradestation.com>

John Dlugosz, 08.04.2009:
> 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