Subject: Re: Odd error when doing "clone && cd && checkout -b"

From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:40:19 +0100

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

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