On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 3:10 AM Jeffrey Walton <noloader@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This does not look normal, either. I don't want to create a new > branch. I want to work on the existing branch. Technically, you *have to* create a new branch here: you do not have an `m4` branch (yet). Your local repository's branches are independent of the branches in the repository you cloned. (You could work in detached HEAD state to avoid the technical requirement here but that's not practical for normal humans. :-) ) The suffix-`--` trick works in old versions of Git, creating the `m4` branch from the `origin/m4` name. If you upgrade to Git 2.23 or later and use `git switch`, I think you will find that it's generally more user friendly. Chris
