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dtrunk
dtrunk

Reputation: 4805

Git branch from remote tag

I've created a new local git repository mirrored from another remote repository:

git init
git remote add original {url}
git pull original master
git remote add origin {url}
git push -u origin master

This would create a mirror of originals master branch. Now I would like to create a new branch of a tag from original.

How the commands should look like? I tried git checkout -b newbranch original/tagname but I got:

fatal: Cannot update paths and switch to branch 'newbranch' at the same time.
Did you intend to checkout 'original/tagname' which can not be resolved as commit?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 35469

Answers (4)

imesh
imesh

Reputation: 1634

The following bash script can be used for automating this process:

#!/bin/bash

old_name="old-branch-name"
new_name="new-branch-name"

git checkout ${old_name}
git branch -m ${old_name} ${new_name}
git push origin :${old_name} ${new_name}
git push origin -u ${new_name}
echo "Branch ${old_name} renamed to ${new_name}"

Upvotes: -2

nicky12345
nicky12345

Reputation: 169

This worked for me 

$git fetch --tags
$git tag
$git checkout -b <new_branch_name> <tagname>

Upvotes: 15

Chronial
Chronial

Reputation: 70673

There is no concept of “remote tracking tags” like there are “remote tracking branches”. You either get the tags from the repo or you don’t. At least in the standard settings. You can change that, but I would not recommend that. Does this not work?

git checkout -b newbranch tagname

Upvotes: 6

jchapa
jchapa

Reputation: 3996

You need to wrap this in two instructions

git checkout tagname && git checkout -b newbranch

Alternatively

git checkout tagname -b newbranch

Upvotes: 25

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