<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div><div> Jed</div><div><br></div><div> So, I am in my PETSc repository and want to try out Patrick Sanan’s FCG since it is cool and we ignored it too long and need to get it into the repository. He’s made a nice pull request; great. So I do </div><div><br></div><div>~/Src/petsc master $ git checkout psanan/ksp-fcg<br>error: pathspec 'psanan/ksp-fcg' did not match any file(s) known to git.</div><div><br></div><div>Then I fucking give up. </div><div><br></div><div>Why doesn’t bitbucket produce useful information to get his branch without being a git guru? It should show the exact magical git incantation to pull his branch. </div><div><br></div><div>1) How do I pull his branch into my repository</div><div>2) How do I know in the future when I want to do this again, how to pull his branch in when my long term memory is shot? </div><div><br></div><div>In other words, though git/bitbucket is powerful, it could be better for people who cannot remember shit</div><div><br></div><div> Thanks</div><div> Barry</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><img apple-inline="yes" id="262D0D87-223A-458D-B5BE-87FFF4A13C2C" height="351" width="796" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:F230625F-482A-49F5-BDA7-6260FD488A7C@wowway.com"><br></body></html>