On Monday 08 March 2010 17:27:15 you wrote: > Andreas, > > Thanks for your help. I'm not at all familiar with git, and can't seem > to find documentation on how to get a specific branch in the "git book", > but I wildly tried this, hoping that the last parameter might be the > branch name: > > git clone git://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh/libssh.git v0-4 > > which seems to have gotten me something. If this is indeed the v0-4 > branch, however, it doesn't seem to fix the problem--I'm still seeing > hangs at the same place when using SFTP to fetch large files from > certain servers.
git branch -a shows you all branches and the one you're checked out is the one with the *. git checkout -b v0-4 origin/v0-4 creates a new local branch based on the upstream branch. http://book.git-scm.com/ -- andreas
