Re: [boost] [git] Effect of "git checkout develop" on submodule?

On 2 December 2013 16:58, Beman Dawes wrote:

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Daniel James wrote:

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On 2 December 2013 16:15, Beman Dawes wrote:

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If I do this:

git clone --recursive git@github.com:boostorg/boost.git modular-boost cd modular-boost/libs/math git checkout develop

What commit of math develop branch should be checked out?

Won't it fail because there isn't a local develop branch?

No, works fine. For example,

Oh, I just tried it and git now creates a local branch if you try to checkout a remote branch with no local copy. I don't think it used to do that.

D:\modular-boost\libs\math>cd ../system

D:\modular-boost\libs\system>git checkout develop Previous HEAD position was 067ff61... Merge from trunk. Switched to branch 'develop'

You are checking out a local branch here, you need to merge or pull the remote branch. You can tell when it's checking out a remote branch because it says something like, "Branch develop set up to track remote branch develop from origin."