Right, you have to do "git checkout -b branch-2 origin/branch-2". You get the trunk branch by default, for all other remote branches, you have to create local branches like that.
HTH Thanks, +Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli Hortonworks Inc. http://hortonworks.com/ On Apr 28, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Samaneh Shokuhi wrote: > Hi Vinod, > i tried with the path you sent but no success .I mean is it not really > switched to branch-2 ,and calling the "git branch -a" displays "no branch" > .Working directory still contains trunk not branch-2 contents. what i get > in console is : > > You are in 'detached HEAD' state. You can look around, make experimental > changes and commit them, and you can discard any commits you make in this > state without impacting any branches by performing another checkout. > > If you want to create a new branch to retain commits you create, you may > do so (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example: > > git checkout -b new_branch_name > > HEAD is now at 72713e0... HDFS-4748. Merge r1476587 from trunk. > > > > On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli < > vino...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > >> >> Not sure about how updated the repo at github is, I use git:// >> git.apache.org/hadoop-common.git >> >> Also what do you mean by branch switch is not working? >> >> Thanks, >> +Vinod >> >> On Apr 28, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Samaneh Shokuhi wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> i ve got a clone of hadoop and tried to switch to branch-2 but ,it is not >>> working ,while switching to other branches like branch-1.2 is possible. >> Any >>> idea why cant switch to branch-2 ? >>> >>> That’s what i ve done : >>> >>> $ git clone git://github.com/apache/hadoop-common.git hadoop-1 >>> $ cd hadoop-1 >>> $ git checkout remotes/origin/branch-2 >>> >>> >>> Samaneh >> >>
