On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 10:14:24PM +0300, Jean Louis wrote: > * tomas@tuxteam.de [2024-10-24 10:48]: > > The error message gives me the impression that git is trying to > > interpret "scratch/igc" as a file path and not as a branch. So > > that might be due to some uncommon/unexpected configuration on > > OP's side. > > > > Jean-Louis: what does the command > > > > git branch -a > > > > say on your side? > > * remotes/origin/scratch/hard-narrow > * remotes/origin/scratch/highlight-n-windows > * remotes/origin/scratch/isearch-show-toggles > * remotes/origin/scratch/jit-lock-antiblink > * remotes/origin/scratch/jit-lock-antiblink-cleaned-up > * remotes/origin/scratch/joaot/make-completion-at-point-function > > That is where I expected "igc" to be alphabetically sorted, is not there. Hm. But it seems to be there: tomas@trotzki:~$ git ls-remote --heads git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git | grep igc d864c26b207362b4591dc821fe8bae1394c61281 refs/heads/scratch/igc For some reason your clone isn't fetching it, At the moment I'm out of ideas on why. Cheers -- tomás