On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:42 PM, David Copeland wrote: > Thanks for the info :) > > The reason I edited by hand is when I was on trunk (e.g. git checkout > trunk), I did a git svn dcommit and it worked, but said "you aren't on > a branch", so I was concerned I might be in some weird state (i.e. if > trunk isn't a branch, can I make a branch off of it?) Trunk is a "remote branch", so you can't check it out. If you try, you get what is called a "detached HEAD". http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html#detached-head And, yes, you can make a local branch off of a remote branch. Peter Harris -- 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
