git-checkout

I am trying to create a local Git branch, but it is not working. Here are the commands I am using: tablet:edit11$ git checkout -b edit_11 Switched to a new branch 'edit_11' tablet:edit11$ git checkout edit_11 error: pathspec 'edit_11' did not match any file(s) known to git. tablet:edit11$ git branch tablet:edit11$ What's going on? You successfully created and "switched to" a branch called edit_11 when you ran git checkout -b edit_11 However, everything (incl. an empty git branch output) indicates that you have just initialised your repository and have yet made to make an initial commit. If

Is there a way to undo the following git command: git checkout -- . I was trying to remove files that were added to the repo directory but not staged or committed. That command didn't seem to do that, instead changing some other files. Update: There's a difference between untracked filed and unstaged files. In this case, I would like to find a way to discard both untracked and unstaged files. When I ran git checkout -- . , I thought it would get rid of untracked files, but it only got rid of unstaged files, as far as I can tell. git checkout -- path copies from index / staging-area, to work

When I first started using Git, I found the checkout command quite confusing. However, as I adapted to Git's model of version control, it started to make sense. Now I am having to teach Git to my coworkers, and I'm trying to explain checkout simply. I thought I had a simple explanation (from the documentation ): Checkout a branch or paths to the working tree That seems to unify some of the things you can do with checkout which seem like a diverse set of operations to someone new to Git: git checkout . git checkout HEAD . git checkout HEAD~2 git checkout feature/update-readme README.md ..

I'm observing something that is not consistent with what I know about the git checkout command. While on a branch other than master , I make some modifications to a tracked file; without staging and committing those changes, I run git checkout master Git complies without batting an eyelid; but what is even more surprising is that all the modifications I made on that branch are still present! Here is an example reproducing the situation: mkdir myrepo cd myrepo git init touch README # create a new file git add . git commit -m "initial commit" git checkout -b new-branch echo "foo" >> README git

I was playing around with git and got confused here. The HEAD of develop branch is at 235a6d8 When I do: git checkout 235a6d8 from any other branch or from develop branch , this leaves me in detached head. I am not sure why does this happen when I am checking out to the latest commit on this branch. When I do: git checkout develop I can switch to develop branch correctly. I am not getting the difference between git checkout <commit-has> and git checkout branchname . How they are different ? A git checkout <commit-hash> , Prepare to work on top of <commit> , by detaching HEAD at it (see "

I accidentally removed the entire directory of my source code...with a nice rm -r. I know, really bad; but fortunately, I had a git repo in the containing directory. Thus, git has a huge list of unstaged changes of deleted files. For example: "deleted: src/caronmonitor/server.py" How do I get these files back? There is advice all over the web to do: git checkout file or git revert <commit> But as I understand that will restore the file to it's state at the last commit. I don't want to go back to the last commit but instead go back to right before the delete operation. I can look in the gitk

tl;dr : git checkout master does not switch to master branch, gives no error or any output at all and I have no clue why. Any other branch works fine. I have a git repository that consists of the branches development and master . I do a fresh clone of the repository, checking out branch development as default. $ git clone <REPO-URL> --branch development $ git branch -a * development origin/HEAD -> origin/development origin/development origin/master $ git show-ref 656c781c2affc26792f857baf8e232de07101535 refs/heads/development 656c781c2affc26792f857baf8e232de07101535 refs/remotes/origin/HEAD

I'm trying to checkout part of remote git repository. As recommended here , with help of command git archive --format=zip --remote=http://path_to_repository But I'm getting error message: fatal: Operation not supported by protocol. Unexpected end of command stream Git is not supporting this operation with http protocol? Thats a problem of hosting environment or git itself? Any directions would help, thanks. J-16 SDiZ git archive can work with a server with git protocol support (i.e. git server, smart-http and ssh server). In your case, either your git is too old, or the server is dumb http