# Odd error when doing "clone && cd && checkout -b" 3 messages from 2010-02-03 to 2010-02-03. Participants: Jacob Helwig, Johannes Sixt. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/22501 ## Jacob Helwig, 2010-02-03 07:00 Subject: Odd error when doing "clone && cd && checkout -b" Message-ID: <20100203070016.GA18089@vfb-9.home> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20100203070016.GA18089%40vfb-9.home ``` In talking with someone in the IRC channel, I ran across something that I thought was very odd behavior. I'm sure there's a very simple explanation, but I can't think of what it might be. The person was getting "fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches.", when they tried to create a new tracking branch, and switch to it, with a fresh clone. I was able to reproduce this, but only by one-lining the "clone && cd && checkout -b". When the "checkout -b" fails from the one-lined version, immediately doing the "checkout -b" on its own succeeds. The output below is from zsh (4.3.10), however I get the exact same behavior when I run the commands using bash (4.0.33). I was testing this using Git 1.6.6.1.598.g661e2. == One-lined Version == vfb-9 ~/tmp % git clone git://github.com/rich97/CakeCMP.git && cd CakeCMP && git checkout -b permissions-rewrite origin/permissions-rewrite Initialized empty shared Git repository in /home/jhe/tmp/CakeCMP/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 1508, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1432/1432), done. remote: Total 1508 (delta 256), reused 1235 (delta 60) Receiving objects: 100% (1508/1508), 844.43 KiB | 104 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (256/256), done. fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches. Did you intend to checkout 'origin/permissions-rewrite' which can not be resolved as commit? vfb-9 ~/tmp/CakeCMP on master(a026490) sigexit % git checkout -b permissions-rewrite origin/permission-rewrite Branch permissions-rewrite set up to track remote branch permission-rewrite from origin. Switched to a new branch 'permissions-rewrite' == Running "checkout -b" on its own == vfb-9 ~/tmp % git clone git://github.com/rich97/CakeCMP.git && cd CakeCMP Initialized empty shared Git repository in /home/jhe/tmp/CakeCMP/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 1508, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1432/1432), done. remote: Total 1508 (delta 256), reused 1235 (delta 60) Receiving objects: 100% (1508/1508), 844.43 KiB | 93 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (256/256), done. vfb-9 ~/tmp/CakeCMP on master(a026490) % git checkout -b permissions-rewrite origin/permission-rewrite Branch permissions-rewrite set up to track remote branch permission-rewrite from origin. Switched to a new branch 'permissions-rewrite' vfb-9 ~/tmp/CakeCMP on permissions-rewrite(ca687f1) % git --version git version 1.6.6.1.598.g661e2 -Jacob ``` ## Johannes Sixt, 2010-02-03 07:40 Subject: Re: Odd error when doing "clone && cd && checkout -b" Message-ID: <4B692863.9000409@viscovery.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4B692863.9000409%40viscovery.net In-Reply-To: <20100203070016.GA18089@vfb-9.home> ``` Jacob Helwig schrieb: > vfb-9 ~/tmp % git clone git://github.com/rich97/CakeCMP.git && cd CakeCMP && git checkout -b permissions-rewrite origin/permissions-rewrite > Initialized empty shared Git repository in /home/jhe/tmp/CakeCMP/.git/ > remote: Counting objects: 1508, done. > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1432/1432), done. > remote: Total 1508 (delta 256), reused 1235 (delta 60) > Receiving objects: 100% (1508/1508), 844.43 KiB | 104 KiB/s, done. > Resolving deltas: 100% (256/256), done. > fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches. > Did you intend to checkout 'origin/permissions-rewrite' which can not be resolved as commit? Or did you intend to track 'origin/permission-rewrite' instead ;-) -- Hannes PS: Please don't set Mail-Followup-To for this list. ``` ## Jacob Helwig, 2010-02-03 13:25 Subject: Re: Odd error when doing "clone && cd && checkout -b" Message-ID: <20100203132558.GA4595@vfb-9.home> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20100203132558.GA4595%40vfb-9.home In-Reply-To: <4B692863.9000409@viscovery.net> ``` On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 23:40, Johannes Sixt wrote: > Jacob Helwig schrieb: >> vfb-9 ~/tmp % git clone git://github.com/rich97/CakeCMP.git && cd CakeCMP && git checkout -b permissions-rewrite origin/permissions-rewrite >> Initialized empty shared Git repository in /home/jhe/tmp/CakeCMP/.git/ >> remote: Counting objects: 1508, done. >> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1432/1432), done. >> remote: Total 1508 (delta 256), reused 1235 (delta 60) >> Receiving objects: 100% (1508/1508), 844.43 KiB | 104 KiB/s, done. >> Resolving deltas: 100% (256/256), done. >> fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches. >> Did you intend to checkout 'origin/permissions-rewrite' which can not be resolved as commit? > > Or did you intend to track 'origin/permission-rewrite' instead ;-) > > -- Hannes > > PS: Please don't set Mail-Followup-To for this list. > Well, I _thought_ I had used the exact same command for the "checkout -b". Obviously, this is not the case. Bah. That's what I get for trying to do anything so late. Apparently Mutt defaults to setting the Mail-Followup-To, if you've let it know about a list. Anyway...that's been fixed. -Jacob ```