New error at `git checkout -b mdboom-pixel_marker v1.1.x':

fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches.
Did you intend to checkout 'v1.1.x' which can not be resolved as commit?

- Chris

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:13 AM, John Hunter <jdh2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Tony Yu <tsy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> git clone g...@github.com:matplotlib/matplotlib.git matplotlib.git
>>>
>>> did not go through.
>>>
>>> - Chris
>>>
>>
>> I don't think you want the ".git" at the very end of the clone command.
>> That just tells get where (i.e. new directory) to put the repo.
>>
>
> I don't think that is the problem.  I just add the .git extension because
> the default is to check out a directory called "matplotlib" which if it is
> located in the path you are running or testing from, will confuse the
> import.  So I just add some extension so python won't confuse the mpl src
> dir ("matplotlib.git") with the mpl package ("matplotlib").

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