Thanks Tony and JDH, problem resolved and now I can try to compile.
- Chris
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Tony Yu <tsy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Chris <plut...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
>
> That looks like something I've done before without issue. Maybe you're on an
> older version of git. In any case, you can break this up into two steps
>
> # change to maintenance branch
> git checkout v1.1.x
>
> # create new branch based on current checkout
> git checkout -b mdboom-pixel_marker
>
>
> Then continue as John instructed.
>
> -Tony
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> 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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