git checkout master error the following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout

Question

I have a git repository  It has A B C D E     commits  Now I want to checkout D as a new branch named Dbranch  So I excute git checkout D -b Dbranch  And now I want to delete this branch  Firstly I need to switch to master branch   and then use git branch -d Dbranch to delete it  But when I excute git checkout master  it gives me the error    error  The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout      source a foo c                 too many lines  Please move or remove them before you can switch branches  Aborting   How to delete the Dbranch

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Try git checkout -f master   -f or --force  Source  https   www kernel org pub software scm git docs git-checkout html     When switching branches  proceed even if the index or the working tree differs from HEAD  This is used to throw away local changes       When checking out paths from the index  do not fail upon unmerged entries  instead  unmerged entries are ignored

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With Git 2 23  August 2019   that would be  using git switch -f   git switch -f master   That avoids the confusion with git checkout  which deals with files or branches      And that will proceeds  even if the index or the working tree differs from HEAD  Both the index and working tree are restored to match the switching target  If --recurse-submodules is specified  submodule content is also restored to match the switching target  This is used to throw away local changes

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do a     git branch   if git show you something like       no branch  master Dbranch   You have a  detached HEAD   If you have modify some files on this branch you  commit them  then return to master with  git checkout master    Now you should be able to delete the Dbranch

[git] git checkout master error: the following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout

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