error pathspec test-branch did not match any file s known to git

Question

I am a new user of Git  I have forked a repository called Spoon-Knife  available for practicing forking with Git   Then  I cloned it locally by running  git clone https   github com rohinichoudhary Spoon-Knife git   This repository contains three branches  i e    master  test-branch  change-the-title    When I run git branch  it only shows  master  not the remaining two branches  And when I run  git checkout test-branch   I get the following error      error  pathspec  test-branch  did not match any file s  known to git    Why is this happening  How can I solve this problem

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When I run git branch  it only shows  master  not the remaining two branches    git branch doesn t list test branch  because no such local branch exist in your local repo  yet  When cloning a repo  only one local branch  master  here  is created and checked out in the resulting clone  irrespective of the number of branches that exist in the remote repo that you cloned from  At this stage  test branch only exist in your repo as a remote-tracking branch  not as a local branch      And when I run  git checkout test-branch       I get the following error         You must be using an  old  version of Git  In more recent versions  from v1 7 0-rc0 onwards        If  lt branch gt  is not found but there does exist a tracking branch in   exactly one remote  call it  lt remote gt   with a matching name  treat  git checkout  lt branch gt   as   equivalent to    git checkout -b  lt branch gt  --track  lt remote gt   lt branch gt     Simply run   git checkout -b test branch --track origin test branch   instead  Or update to a more recent version of Git

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Try cloning before doing the checkout   do git clone  whee to find it  then after cloning check out the branch

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You can also get this error with any version of git if the remote branch was created after your last clone fetch and your local repo doesn t know about it yet   I solved it by doing a git fetch first which  tells  your local repo about all the remote branches   git fetch git checkout test-branch

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just follow three steps  git branch problem will be solved   git remote update git fetch git checkout --track origin test-branch

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I got this error because the instruction on the Web was   git checkout https   github com veripool verilog-mode  which I did in a directory where  on my own initiative  i had run git init  The correct Web instruction  for newbies like me  should have been  git clone https   github com veripool verilog-mode

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Following worked for me git pull  Then checkout the required branch

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Solution   To fix it you need to fetch first    git fetch origin    git rebase origin master   Current branch master is up to date     git checkout develop   Branch develop set up to track remote branch develop from origin   Switched to a new branch    develop

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My friend  you need to create those corresponding branches locally first  in order to check-out to those other two branches  using this line of code  git branch test-branch     and    git branch change-the-title  then only you will be able to do git checkout to those branches  Also after creating each branch  take latest changes of those particular branches by using git pull origin branch name   as shown in below code  git branch test-branch git checkout test-branch git pull origin test-branch   and for other branch named change-the-title  run following code     git branch change-the-title git checkout change-the-title git pull origin change-the-title   Happy programming

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The modern Git should able to detect remote branches and create a local one on checkout   However if you did a shallow clone  e g  with --depth 1   try the following commands to correct it   git config remote origin fetch   refs heads   refs remotes origin    git fetch --all   and try to checkout out the branch again   Alternatively try to unshallow your clone  e g  git fetch --unshallow and try again   See also  How to fetch all remote branches

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This error can also appear if your git branch is not correct even though case sensitive wise  In my case I was getting this error as actual branch name was  CORE-something  but I was taking pull like  core-something

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git fetch  amp  amp  git checkout branch-name

[git] error: pathspec 'test-branch' did not match any file(s) known to git

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