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"fatal: reference is not a tree:" on git checkout <branch>

From
DADavid Abdurachmanov <david.abd@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 26, 2013, 09:52 UTC
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Hi,
Reproduce:

$ git clone https://github.com/cms-sw/cmsdist.git $ git branch -a | grep devel-gcc48 remotes/origin/IB/CMSSW_7_0_X/devel-gcc48 $ git checkout IB/CMSSW_7_0_X/devel-gcc48 fatal: reference is not a tree: IB/CMSSW_7_0_X/devel-gcc48

It has stopped to work with the last pull request. All the references on Google talk about submodules, which I don't use. Any ideas what could be causing this issue?

You can get into detached state by: $ git checkout origin/IB/CMSSW_7_0_X/devel-gcc48 

You also can checkout a branch by doing:
$ git clone -b IB/CMSSW_7_0_X/devel-gcc48 https://github.com/cms-sw/cmsdist.git
$ git branch
* IB/CMSSW_7_0_X/devel-gcc48

Thanks, david

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  1. David AbdurachmanovJul 26, 2013
  2. Duy NguyenJul 26, 2013

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