Clone - when there are un-merged branches

TrevorBStokes November 30, 2015

My BitBucket repo has two branches: Master and ContinuedCleanup. Should I be able to clone the whole current state and checkout either on my local machine?
I did the clone from a shell, using the command Bitbucket generated, and then started gitk and git-gui. If I try to checkout ContinuedCleanup I get the message "You are no longer on a local branch." I checked the box "Tracking Branch."

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Tim Crall
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November 30, 2015

By default, clone only clones down the master branch.  However on current versions of git, attempting to checkout a remote branch should cause it to automatically fetch the remote branch and start tracking it locally.  I'm not specifically familiar with gitk and git-gui, but that's the standard behavior of the git command line itself.

If it's not working, you may want to try doing an explicit pull of the branch.

TrevorBStokes December 8, 2015

Thanks. I think I solved this by doing a fetch and then activating the branch I needed.

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