From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:07:16 GMT
Subject: Re: checkout on an empty directory fails
Message-ID: <CALkWK0knVa3V9mX86WhmXmC3_SBPitgAzh_9RAXmWeQcgf=hRw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F0576D9.4030207@gmx.de>

Hi René,

René Doß wrote:
> I have a clean derectory ang the git database. Now I want check out the
> master.
> [...]
>
> red@linux-nrd1:~/iso/a> ls -a
> .  ..  .git
> red@linux-nrd1:~/iso/a> git checkout master
> D       SP601_RevC_annotated_master_ucf_8-28-09.ucf
> [...]

In such situations, "git status" usually has something helpful to say.
 You're already on the "master" branch, and you can reset your
worktree with `git reset --hard` (caution: please read the manpage).

-- Ram