John Dlugosz, 08.04.2009: > On a Windows system running msysgit, I entered the command: > > git checkout -b -l jmd/mt_queue > > and got a reply of: > fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching > branches. > Did you intend to checkout 'compile.vc8/Win32/release/jmd/mt_queue' > which can not be resolved as commit? >From the documentation: [-b <new_branch> [-l]] The new branch has to follow the -b option immediately. > Is there something about this form of checkout that requires that it be > issued while in the "top level" directory of the project (i.e. the one > containing the .git subdirectory)? No, that doesn't matter. Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html