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

On 2 December 2013 19:14, Beman Dawes wrote:

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Daniel James wrote:

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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.

FWIW this was introduced in git 1.6.6. If you check out a branch that doesn't exist locally, but does on a single remote, it automatically creates a local branch.

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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."

OK, did this: "git checkout -B develop remotes/origin/develop"

Got the message you indicated.

The problem with this is that you might overwrite some local changes on accident. It's better to do: git checkout develop git pull Which will pull the latest changes from the remote branch into the local branch. Btw. you can usually just write 'origin/develop' rather than 'remotes/origin/develop'.