Hello, Kind of convoluted, and perhaps not even an error. On a repository with a remote tracking branch, say remotes/origin/master, then do this: git checkout -b temp origin/master git checkout origin/master git branch * temp This might seem like an odd thing to want to do, but I found this because the next thing I wanted to do was git branch -D temp Which won't work because the branch hasn't changed. Andy -- Dr Andrew Parkins, M Eng (Hons), AMIEE andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx - 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