From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 14:39:11 GMT
Subject: Re: how to clone/checkout branch/tag vesion from GIT repository
Message-ID: <20120510143911.GB14711@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <49A2AA38871E7B41841AA7D659D626A62E2098A2@njexch01.imany.com>

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:19:12AM -0400, Suchi Upadhyay wrote:

> 2- for branch:
> $ git checkout br6-1-0
> 
> Suchi - As per my understanding with GIT this command will create a
> new branch in my repository..for ex. If I run "git checkout suchi"
> then it will create suchi as a new branch.

Not exactly. It will do one of:

  1. If a local branch named br6-1-0 exists, it will be checked out.

  2. If a tag named br6-1-0 exists, then you will be put in a "detached
     HEAD" state, starting at the tag. See the "detached HEAD" section
     of "git help checkout" for details.

  3. If a remote branch named br6-1-0 exists, a local branch of the same
     name will be created, starting at the same spot.

  4. Otherwise, it is an error.

> Please note that  - branch br6-1-0 created in CVS and then our source
> code migrated to Git. But in migration output I can see the br6-1-0
> picked up for copying ...
> [...]
> Suchi - I want a branch list from remote. I have run your suggested
> command  but it shows only tag list and no branch.

>From the message you are seeing from "git clone -b", and from the output
of "ls-remote", it sounds like br6-1-0 really is a tag in git, not a
branch. Since you have said it is coming from CVS, I suspect this is an
artifact of the CVS->git conversion. And if that is not the desired
outcome, you should look into your conversion process (there are several
tools available; if you used git-cvsimport, it is generally considered
to to be the least accurate, and you might try cvs2git).

-Peff