Re: How to checkout a branch (and not a tag)

>
> Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I'm trying to checkout a branch called REL1_35 from
> > https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-skins-Cosmos. The repo also has
> > a tag called REL1_35.
> >
> > When I perform the following I apparently get the tag (with old files)
> > and not the branch (with updated files):
> >
> >     wiki_rel=REL1_53
>
> Hopefully this typo is not part of what contributed to your problem.
> Assuming that you actually used REL1_35 here...

> >     ...
> >     git fetch origin && git reset --hard "origin/${wiki_rel}" && \
>
> ...this should get their branches in refs/remotes/origin/, and would
> reset whatever local branch you are on to origin/REL1_35.  So at this
> point, HEAD is the same as their REL1_35 branch.
>
> >         git checkout -f "${wiki_rel}"
>
> And this causes the tag/REL1_35, which was obtained from them, to be
> checked out to a detached HEAD.
>
> What are you trying to do here?  Do you want your own local REL1_35
> branch, that starts at the same commit as their REL1_35 branch?