From: Thomas Anderson Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:32:14 GMT Subject: Re: unable to checkout branches and proper procedure for creating a new branch based off of another one Message-ID: In-Reply-To: I guess what I was trying to do was checkout a remote branch. Of course, it's unclear to me what the difference between "git checkout origin/branch" and "git checkout -b origin/branch" is. The latter creates a local branch and the former doesn't? Does that mean that, with the former, changes I commit and subsequently push will get written to the remote default branch and not the remote "branch" branch? And how do I check that files in the current working directory are from the desired branch? "git log" shows commits made to the default branch - not to the "default" branch, which doesn't give me much confidence... On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Thomas Anderson wrote: > Say there's a Git repository with two branches: default (which is the > default branch) and branch.  I want to checkout branch and start > working on that but am unsure of how to do it.  Here are the commands > that I did: > > git clone git@github.com:username/repo.git > cd repo > git checkout branch > > But that gets me the following error: > > fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git > > I do "git branch" and here's what I see: > > * default > > Where's "branch"? > > And let's say I wanted to create my own branch based on "branch". > Let's say "branch-zelnaga".  How would I do that?  Do I just checkout > that branch, create a new branch while the current working directory > contains files from the desired branch and then push / commit as > appropriate? >