[Bioc-devel] fatal: 'upstream/RELEASE_3_11' is not a commit and a branch 'RELEASE_3_11' cannot be created from it

[Nitesh Turaga]

Hi Aditya,

http://bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/git/faq/ <http://bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/git/faq/> #14 would give me more information on how to help you with this issue.

Best,

Nitesh 

> On Jun 11, 2020, at 12:15 PM, Bhagwat, Aditya <Aditya.Bhagwat using mpi-bn.mpg.de> wrote:
> 
> Dear Bioc Core,
> 
> Thank you for accepting multicrispr on BioC<https://github.com/Bioconductor/Contributions/issues/1486>.
> I was going through the instructions on how to sync existing repositories<https://bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/git/sync-existing-repositories/>.
> All instructions up to point 9 work.
> 
> Point 10, however fails, when creating the release branch:
> $ git checkout -b RELEASE_3_11 upstream/RELEASE_3_11
> fatal: 'upstream/RELEASE_3_11' is not a commit and a branch 'RELEASE_3_11' cannot be created  from it
> 
> I wonder what I am doing wrong (seems like it should be something trivial, but I am not seeing it).
> 
> Thank you for helping!
> 
> Aditya
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