error Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout

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This question is similar to this one  but more specific  I have a project with two branches  staging and beta  I develop on staging  and use the master branch to fix bugs  So if I m working on staging and I see an error  I change to master branch  git checkout master  and do the stuff  git add fileToAdd git commit -m  quot bug fixed quot   and then I merge with both branches  git checkout staging git merge master git checkout beta git merge beta  And doesn t matter if there are other files on the working tree  But now  when I try to change to the master branch  I m getting an error  error  Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout  src Pro ConvocationBundle Controller DefaultController php Please  commit your changes or stash them before you can switch branches  Aborting  I thought that I should remove the file from the staging area  git reset HEAD src Pro ConvocationBundle Controller DefaultController php  but I m getting the same error  If I do git status I get No changes to commit

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You can commit in the current branch  checkout to another branch  and finally cherry-pick that commit  in lieu of merge

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Your error appears when you have modified a file and the branch that you are switching to has changes for this file too  from latest merge point    Your options  as I see it  are - commit  and then amend this commit with extra changes  you can modify commits in git  as long as they re not pushed   or - use stash   git stash save your-file-name git checkout master   do whatever you had to do with master git checkout staging git stash pop   git stash save will create stash that contains your changes  but it isn t associated with any commit or even branch  git stash pop will apply latest stash entry to your current branch  restoring saved changes and removing it from stash

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This error happens when the branch you are switching to  has changes that your current branch doesn t have  If you are seeing this error when you try to switch to a new branch  then your current branch is probably behind one or more commits  If so  run  git fetch  You should also remove dependencies which may also conflict with the destination branch  For example  for iOS developers  pod deintegrate  then try checking out a branch again  If the desired branch isn t new you can either cherry pick a commit and fix the conflicts or stash the changes and then fix the conflicts  1  Git Stash  recommended  git stash git checkout  lt desiredBranch gt  git stash apply  2  Cherry pick  more work  git add  lt your file gt  git commit -m  quot Your message quot  git log  Copy the sha of your commit  Then discard unwanted changes  git checkout   git checkout --    git clean -f -fd -fx  Make sure your branch is up to date  git fetch  Then checkout to the desired branch git checkout  lt desiredBranch gt   Then cherry pick the other commit  git cherry-pick  lt theSha gt   Now fix the conflict   Otherwise  your other option is to abandon your current branches changes with   git checkout -f branch

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i had got the same error  Actually i tried to override the flutter Old SDK Package with new Updated Package  so that error occurred  i opened flutter sdk directory with VS Code and cleaned the project use this code in VSCode cmd git clean -dxf then use git pull

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I encountered the same problem and solved it by           git checkout -f branch      Well  be careful with the -f switch  You will lose any uncommitted changes if you use the -f switch  While there may be some use cases where it is helpful to use -f  in most cases  you may want to stash your changes and then switch branches  The stashing procedure is explained above

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You can force checkout your branch  if you do not want to commit your local changes   git checkout -f branch name

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I encountered the same problem and solved it by  git checkout -f branch   and its specification is rather clear      -f  --force      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

[git] error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout

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