On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:19:12AM -0400, Suchi Upadhyay wrote:
> 2- for branch:
> $ git checkout br6-1-0
>
> Suchi - As per my understanding with GIT this command will create a
> new branch in my repository..for ex. If I run "git checkout suchi"
> then it will create suchi as a new branch.
Not exactly. It will do one of:
1. If a local branch named br6-1-0 exists, it will be checked out.
2. If a tag named br6-1-0 exists, then you will be put in a "detached
HEAD" state, starting at the tag. See the "detached HEAD" section
of "git help checkout" for details.
3. If a remote branch named br6-1-0 exists, a local branch of the same
name will be created, starting at the same spot.
4. Otherwise, it is an error.
> Please note that - branch br6-1-0 created in CVS and then our source
> code migrated to Git. But in migration output I can see the br6-1-0
> picked up for copying ...
> [...]
> Suchi - I want a branch list from remote. I have run your suggested
> command but it shows only tag list and no branch.
>From the message you are seeing from "git clone -b", and from the output
of "ls-remote", it sounds like br6-1-0 really is a tag in git, not a
branch. Since you have said it is coming from CVS, I suspect this is an
artifact of the CVS->git conversion. And if that is not the desired
outcome, you should look into your conversion process (there are several
tools available; if you used git-cvsimport, it is generally considered
to to be the least accurate, and you might try cvs2git).
-Peff
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