David Aguilar <davvid@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt
> <jc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> maybe this has already been reported, but I didn't find it in the mail archive.
>>
>> If I understand correctly, after I clone a repo, I should be able to
>> switch to branch foo just by running
>>
>> git checkout foo
>>
>> This doesn't seem to work if a folder called "foo" exists in the root
>> of the repo.
>
> git checkout foo --
>
> The double-dash at the end disambiguates between refs and paths.
>
> You can use that trick on any command that accepts refspec (branches,
> tags, etc) and pathspec (path patterns).
I was going to reply with similar advice, but I actually tried it on the
example repo and it didn't work. Apparently it doesn't interoperate
properly with the functionality that guesses when you're trying to check
out a remote branch and creates an equivalently named local branch.
[2] fs@erdos /tmp $ git clone https://github.com/dbpedia/extraction-framework.git
Cloning into 'extraction-framework'...
remote: Counting objects: 33513, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (6633/6633), done.
remote: Total 33513 (delta 19000), reused 32922 (delta 18436)
Receiving objects: 100% (33513/33513), 23.48 MiB | 747.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (19000/19000), done.
Checking connectivity... done
[2] fs@erdos /tmp $ cd extraction-framework/
[2] fs@erdos /tmp/extraction-framework $ git checkout live-dev --
fatal: invalid reference: live-dev
[2] fs@erdos /tmp/extraction-framework $ git checkout live-dev
Branch live-dev set up to track remote branch live-dev from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'live-dev'
[2] fs@erdos /tmp/extraction-framework $ git checkout master
Switched to branch 'master'
[2] fs@erdos /tmp/extraction-framework $ git checkout wiktionary
[2] fs@erdos /tmp/extraction-framework $ git branch
live-dev
* master
[2] fs@erdos /tmp/extraction-framework $ git checkout wiktionary --
fatal: invalid reference: wiktionary
-Keshav
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