On May 4, 2010, at 10:56 PM, vijaya subramanian wrote: > Hi Carsten > A couple of quick questions: > I already have gromacs-4.0.7 downloaded from the gromacs website. I found > that I couldn't > use git checkout --track -b release-4-0-patches origin/release-4-0-patches to > get the patches. > fatal: Not a git repository > Do I have to uninstall gromacs-4.0.7 and re-install gromacs obtained from the > git site as below, > then install gromacs again? > Hi,
if the git clone command worked, then the git checkout --track should also work. Maybe you forgot to change into the gromacs directory that was produced by the first command? You have to do the checkout --track in the directory where a .git subdir is present. > git clone git://git.gromacs.org/gromacs.git cd gromacs > git checkout --track -b release-4-0-patches origin/release-4-0-patches Carsten -- Dr. Carsten Kutzner Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Goettingen, Germany Tel. +49-551-2012313, Fax: +49-551-2012302 http://www.mpibpc.mpg.de/home/grubmueller/ihp/ckutzne
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