I would venture that either your local copy or whatever your 'origin' points to is not up to date. There was a cassandra-2.0.0 prior to the final 2.0 release and it was both a tag and a branch name for about 10 minutes but the branch has been removed since then as can be seen (or rather not seen) at: https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=heads
I'll note in particular that the apache github mirror ( https://github.com/apache/cassandra) is known for not always being up to date and in particular, for some reason, I think it doesn't pick up branch deletions in its mirroring. -- Sylvain On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 4:00 AM, Blair Zajac <bl...@orcaware.com> wrote: > $ git branch -a | grep cassandra-2.0.0 > * cassandra-2.0.0 > remotes/origin/cassandra-2.0.0 > > $ git tag -l | grep cassandra-2.0.0cassandra-2.0.0 > cassandra-2.0.0-beta1 > cassandra-2.0.0-beta2 > cassandra-2.0.0-rc1 > cassandra-2.0.0-rc2 > > $ git checkout cassandra-2.0.0 > warning: refname 'cassandra-2.0.0' is ambiguous. > > Blair >