From: "Paul Williamson" <paul.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi,
We use git extensively on a number of repos. Recently, we have had a
problem with one of them. This repo has a 'web_dev' branch. For copies of
the repo cloned before a certain (recent but unidentified) time, we could
'git checkout' between master and web_dev and everything would be normal.
However, now if we clone the repo, we can no longer do 'git checkout
web_dev'. Git doesn't complain, in fact there is no feedback and we are
still in the master branch. Running 'git branch -r' still shows the branch
as existing at origin.
Have you tried `git ls-remote` ?
The `branch -r` just lists the local 'rtb's (IIUC).
It could be someone has accidently pruned or deleted that branch at the
remote.
What version are you (they) on?
If we try 'git branch web_dev' we then see web_dev listed locally and can
switch to it BUT on closer inspection we realise that this action has
created a new branch off master.
The first time we saw this was under Bash on Windows, so we thought maybe
it was a beta problem, but a) other repos work as expected under that
environment, and b) under cygwin, pulling the same repo to a new directory
alongside an older copy shows that the problem occurs with the new clone,
but not the one that that was cloned longer ago.
Also in this situation, there are no local outstanding code changes that
might cause problems switching branches. This occurs right from a cleanly
cloned repo.
It seems something has gone wrong with this repo, and we don't know what.
It's a tough problem to google, and I was not able to search the gmane
archives (DNS errors).
Gmane had to quit. Try http://public-inbox.org/git (see the help link)
Any idea how to investigate?
Thanks,
Paul
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philip