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Alexander Mills
Alexander Mills

Reputation: 100426

git branch - local or what?

I ran the following commands:

(we have a staging branch called "master_next")

(1) git fetch origin

(2) git checkout -b origin/master_next

now, when I run

(3) git branch

I see some weird stuff. Instead of seeing

master
master_next

I see

master
origin/master_next

why is the branch I just checked out preceded with "origin" - is it somehow different?

here is the exact results:

CACSVML-13295:smartconnect amills001c$ git fetch origin
From http://github.csv.comcast.com/Baymax/smartconnect
 * [new branch]      master_next -> origin/master_next
 * [new tag]         0.0.2      -> 0.0.2
 * [new tag]         0.0.3      -> 0.0.3
CACSVML-13295:smartconnect amills001c$ git checkout -b origin/master_next
Switched to a new branch 'origin/master_next'
CACSVML-13295:smartconnect amills001c$ git branch
  master
* origin/master_next    //wth?

can anyone explain why this happened and how origin/master_next might be different than plain-old master_next?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 76

Answers (3)

Tim Bodeit
Tim Bodeit

Reputation: 9703

You likely meant to use the -t option.

  • git checkout -t origin/branchname
    will create a new local branch at the commit, that branchname on the origin remote is pointing to. It will at the same time set up that new local branch to track the remote branch. This means that you will be able to pull from and push to it with your local branch.

  • git checkout -b branchname
    will create a new local branch at the commit that you are currently at.

Upvotes: 2

NendoTaka
NendoTaka

Reputation: 1224

git checkout -b origin/master_next creates a new branch. -b is used to make a new branch. Instead try git checkout master_next

Upvotes: 1

Rahul Gupta
Rahul Gupta

Reputation: 47906

The problem was in this command:

git checkout -b origin/master_next

This command created a new branch origin/master_next instead of checking out the branch master_next that was created remotely.

What you should have done:

  1. git fetch origin

  2. git checkout master_next

  3. git branch

The git checkout branch_name command with -b creates a new branch branch_name and then checkouts to that branch.

git checkout -b new_branch_name #will create new branch and checkout to it

Upvotes: 1

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