Apr 14 2010
fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches.
Using GIT I tried to pull down a new remote branch using:
git checkout --track -b my-branch-name origin/my-branch-name
When I did this I got this error message:
fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches. Did you intend to checkout 'origin/my-branch-name' which can not be resolved as commit?
This error message was a tad confusing. The solution in my case was simple though, apparently you can’t switch to a different remote branch if your local master is not up-to-date with the remote origin/master so performing:
git pull
resolved the issue and after this I was able to successfully pull down the remote branch.
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