Cannot update paths and switch to branch at the same time

Question

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 --track origin master fatal  Cannot update paths and switch to branch  test  at the same time  Did you intend to checkout  origin master  which can not be resolved as commit    Why does Git not like it  This used to work with the same repo

User · Answer

You should go the submodule dir and run git status.

You may see a lot of files were deleted. You may run

git reset .
git checkout .
git fetch -p
git rm --cached submodules //submoudles is your name
git submoudle add ....

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You can get this error in the context of  e g  a Travis build that  by default  checks code out with git clone --depth 50 --branch master  To the best of my knowledge  you can control --depth via  travis yml but not the --branch  Since that results in only a single branch being tracked by the remote  you need to independently update the remote to track the desired remote s refs   Before     git branch -a   master remotes origin HEAD - gt  origin master remotes origin master   The fix     git remote set-branches --add origin branch-1   git remote set-branches --add origin branch-2   git fetch   After     git branch -a   master remotes origin HEAD - gt  origin master remotes origin branch-1 remotes origin branch-2 remotes origin master

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You can use these commands  git remote update  git fetch  git checkout -b branch nameA origin branch nameB  I think maybe it s because of your local branch can not track remote branch

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This simple thing worked for me   If it says it can t do 2 things at same time  separate them    git branch branch name origin branch name   git checkout branch name

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You could follow these steps when you stumble upon this issue   Run the following command to list the branches known for your local repository    git remote show origin  which outputs this    remote origin   Fetch URL   lt your git path gt    Push  URL   lt your git path gt    HEAD branch  development   Remote branches      development                             tracked     Feature2                                tracked     master                                  tracked     refs remotes origin Feature1         stale  use  git remote prune  to remove    Local branches configured for  git pull       Feature2     merges with remote Feature2     development  merges with remote development     master       merges with remote master   Local refs configured for  git push       Feature2     pushes to Feature2      up to date      development  pushes to development  up to date      master       pushes to master       local out of date     After verifying the details like  fetch URL  etc   run this command to fetch any new branch i e  which you may want to checkout in your local repo  that exist in the remote but not in your local       git remote update  Fetching origin From gitlab domain local ProjectGroupName ProjectName     new branch       Feature3    - gt  Feature3   As you can see the new branch has been fetched from remote   3  Finally  checkout the branch with this command     git checkout -b Feature3 origin Feature3  Branch Feature3 set up to track remote branch Feature3 from origin  Switched to a new branch  Feature3    It is not necessary to explicitly tell Git to track using --track  the branch with remote  The above command will set the local branch to track the remote branch from origin

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origin master  which can not be resolved as commit   Strange  you need to check your remotes   git remote -v   And make sure origin is fetched   git fetch origin   Then   git branch -avv    to see if you do have fetched an origin master branch   Finally  use git switch instead of the confusing git checkout  with Git 2 23   August 2019    git switch -c test --track origin master

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For me I needed to add the remote   git remote -add myRemoteName  origin  in your case  remoteGitURL   then I could fetch  git fetch myRemoteName

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If you have a typo in your branchname you ll get this same error

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First you need to Fetch the remote  the specific branch   then you can create a local br and track it with that remote branch using your command  i e  checkout with -b and --track

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It causes by that your local branch doesn t track remote branch  As ssasi said you need use these commands   git remote update git fetch git checkout -b branch nameA origin branch nameB   I solved my problem just now

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If you got white space in your branch then you will get this error

[git] "Cannot update paths and switch to branch at the same time"

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