Ulf-D. Ehlert skreiv: > Kolbjørn Stuestøl (Dienstag, 16. Juni 2009, 10:42): > >> Ulf-D. Ehlert skreiv: >> >>> I have changed the Perl script we use to create links to images >>> files and have committed it to a new branch (try 'git branch >>> -a'). >>> >> What command(s) do I need to download the files from this branch? >> "git clone", "pull" etc. did not work. >> (I'm lazy ;-) Easier to ask here than reading the manual) >> > > Don't know (never tried it - I'm lazy, too), but according to > http://github.com/guides/git-cheat-sheet > Nice site. Wasn't aware of it. > you should try > git fetch origin [remote-branch]:[new-local-branch] > here: > git fetch origin cygwin-windows-quirks:cygwin-windows-quirks > (or just > git fetch origin cygwin-windows-quirks?) > Both works, but the only new file I get is an updating of gimp-help-2/.git/FETCH_HEAD. No other files in my folders. > An alternative seems to be > git fetch > and then > git checkout -b cygwin-windows-quirks origin/cygwin-windows-quirks > Perhaps I forgot the "-b" or missed something during copying, but the final result was that lots of files in my working copy of gimp-help-2 where deleted or changed! I stopped thinking and run the git clone command to get a new copy. Could you mail me the file instead? I am not very eager at the moment to spend more time on the git commands. Better using it on the Cygwin/Windows problem. Kolbjoern > Ulf > > _______________________________________________ Gimp-docs mailing list Gimp-docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-docs