I’m experimenting with

lakectl local

and ran into a problem during branch checkout - I first cloned my repo with -

lakectl local clone <lakefs://tal-samples/main/>

Then, I created branch b1 on my repo, and tried to track it locally with

lakectl local checkout . --ref b1

I’m getting the following error

ref malformed lakefs URI
Error executing command.

Can you please help understanding the problem?

Hi @Tal Sofer you need to provide a full ref URI. e.g.

lakefs://<repo-name>/<ref-name>

Also, please note that initally you have cloned a branch to your local env. In that case the behavior will be a bit strange since that path will always be looking at the main branch as source

Thanks @Niro. How do I check that checkout worked? is this using

lakectl local status

?

lakectl local list <data_path>

will provide you with the head the current path is pointing to if I remember correctly 🙂