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rack_remote/master have changed to rack_remote/main

Open Sherry520 opened this issue 6 months ago • 0 comments

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This report is about the ProGit book, version 2, English language.

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Bug covers book website/pdf

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Problem is present in the Pro Git book on the website?

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Which version of the book is affected?

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Describe the bug:

In Git Tools -> Advanced Merging -> Subtree Merging Code in the example: image

git checkout -b rack_branch rack_remote/master error occured: fatal: 'rack_remote/master' is not a commit and a branch 'rack_branch' cannot be created from it

Steps to reproduce:

  1. git remote add rack_remote https://github.com/rack/rack
  2. git fetch rack_remote --no-tags
  3. git checkout -b rack_branch rack_remote/master

Expected behavior:

image

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Additional context:

The reason is that rack_remote/master has changed to rack_remote/main image

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Sherry520 avatar Aug 01 '24 10:08 Sherry520