Your git stuff was quite OK, the Problem was that the branch is 280_port and not vice versa ;-)
Please try it again: git clone ... git branch 280_port origin/280_port git checkout 280_port Heiko On Sunday, December 20, 2009, Channing Walton <channingwal...@mac.com> wrote: > > ah I see the problem - I know nothing about git! > > I original thought that the URL at the top of the github page for port_280 > would get me port_280 which it doesn't. > > I tried following the instructions here: > http://wiki.github.com/bricoleurs/bricolage/working-with-branches > But that isn't working for me: > > % git clone git://github.com/dpp/liftweb.git > ... > % cd liftweb/ > % git fetch origin > % git checkout --track -b port_280 origin/port_280 > fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches. > Did you intend to checkout 'origin/port_280' which can not be resolved as > commit? > > What should I do? (I've trawled gits help pages but I'm not having any luck) > > Channing > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Building-Lift-with-scala-2.8.0-tp26858625p26862689.html > Sent from the liftweb mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Lift" group. > To post to this group, send email to lift...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en. > > > -- Heiko Seeberger My job: weiglewilczek.com My blog: heikoseeberger.name Follow me: twitter.com/hseeberger OSGi on Scala: scalamodules.org Lift, the simply functional web framework: liftweb.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to lift...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en.