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Bug 360163

Summary:	Behaviour change when checking out branches
Product:	[Technology] EGit	Reporter:	DJ Houghton <dj.houghton>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Project Inbox <egit.core-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	john.arthorne, remy.suen, robin.rosenberg, robin
Version:	1.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
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Description DJ Houghton

2011-10-06 15:46:58 EDT

Eclipse EGit - 1.2.0.201110050721
Eclipse SDK - 4.2.0.I20111004-2000

Recently I wanted to work on a maintenance branch for an Eclipse project, so this is what I did:
- cloned the Eclipse repo
- said I wanted to work from master before the clone
- after the clone in the Git Repo view right-click on the repo and say Switch To... -> Other...
- at this point I chose the remote R3_7_maintenance branch (it isn't listed locally)

Doing this operation doesn't seem to make a local copy of the branch to work in. Going to the command-line and typing:
  git branch
told me that I wasn't in a branch. 

I'm pretty sure this was the pattern that I followed in earlier workspaces to work in branches. 

To work around this I went to the command-line and typed:
   git checkout R3_7_maintenance
and it created the local copy for me and switched me to it.

Comment 1 Robin Rosenberg

2013-04-17 19:35:18 EDT

Maybe the UI could assist newcomers better here

Comment 2 Robin Stocker

2013-04-18 04:30:23 EDT

Let's look at this in bug 341679.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 341679 ***