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12 questions linked to/from Git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches
3229 votes
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`git fetch` a remote branch
The remote repository contains various branches such as origin/daves_branch: $ git branch -r origin/HEAD -> origin/master origin/daves_branch origin/master How do I switch to daves_branch in the ...
2076 votes
25 answers
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How can I avoid having to do "git branch --set-upstream", and instead default to automatically setup remote tracking?
I create a new branch in Git: git branch my_branch Push it: git push origin my_branch Now say someone made some changes on the server and I want to pull from origin/my_branch. I do: git pull But I ...
210 votes
15 answers
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"Cannot update paths and switch to branch at the same time"
I sometimes use the checkout -b option to create a new branch, check it out at the same time and set up tracking in one command. In a new environment, I get this error: $ git checkout -b test --...
62 votes
4 answers
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Checkout branch on different remote
I have a repo that has another remote upstream besides origin. I can do git checkout origin/master, but when I run git checkout upstream/master, I get: error: pathspec 'upstream/master' did not match ...
32 votes
5 answers
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Creating git branch based another branch
I'd like to create local branch based on other branch. For example I type: git checkout -b feature1 release1.1.3 After that I get: fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching ...
15 votes
5 answers
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Git Sync to upstream: Newly created branch not showing in my fork
I've two remotes - origin which points to my fork and upstream which points to company repo. $git remote -v origin https://github.com/me/app.git (fetch) origin https://github.com/me/app....
16 votes
4 answers
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Forking only a specific branch from Github repository
Suppose there's an official repo maintained called O with branches B1, B2 & B3. One user, who has forked it onto his Github account, made another branch for himself called B4 and is publicly ...
5 votes
2 answers
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Checkout to branch when git clone --depth 1 doesn't work
set -e cd /source git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/named-data/ndn-cxx.git pushd ./ndn-cxx git checkout -b release-build ndn-cxx-0.3.3 ./waf configure ./waf ./waf install popd rm -rf ./...
5 votes
1 answer
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Git plugin for Hudson checkout problem
When using the Git plugin for Hudson my job always fails when fetching the latest sources from my online git repository ( git://github.com/ithena/orm2dsl.git ) . The git plugin first executes git ...
3 votes
2 answers
6k views
Fatal Git error when switching branch
Error message: fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches/forcing How to get past this Git checkout error?
0 votes
2 answers
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Git - remote branch invisible to local repo, fetch isn't helping
I have a personal git repo on a server ("Server Repo"). It cannot see a branch on its central remote repo ("Origin") that I pushed from a personal git repo on another computer ("Personal Repo"). ...
1 vote
1 answer
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Git checkout -b with --track fails
Currently while trying to create a new branch and setting up tracking at the same time I'm getting the following error. Note that co is aliased to checkout git co -b feature/validation --track fork/...