Issue checking out lisf-public-7.x branch with git

[jessiemoravek]

Hello,

I am working through the LISF Quick Start Guide. I followed the steps in the "working with github" guide and am now trying to use git checkout:

git checkout support/lisf-public-7.4

However, I'm getting the following error:
error: pathspec 'support/lisf-public-7.4' did not match any file(s) known to git

When I run git remote -v, I get the following:

origin  github:jessiemoravek/LISF.git (fetch)
origin  github:jessiemoravek/LISF.git (push)
upstream        github:NASA-LIS/LISF.git (fetch)
upstream        github:NASA-LIS/LISF.git (push)

This seems correct to me, so I don't understand why the checkout isn't working. Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Thank you,
Jessie

[jvgeiger]

Hello,

Thanks for reading the docs. :-)

I am sorry that this note did not stand out enough:

If this is your first time working with upstream/<support/branch> (or you removed that tracking branch), then

% git fetch upstream <support/branch>
% git checkout -b <support/branch> upstream/<support/branch>

So for your case, run

% git fetch upstream support/lisf-public-7.4
% git checkout -b support/lisf-public-7.4 upstream/support/lisf-public-7.4

That will checkout the lisf-public-7.4 branch.