error: pathspec 'test-branch' did not match any file(s) known to git
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
<branch>
is not found but there does exist a tracking branch in exactly one remote (call it<remote>
) with a matching name, treat [git checkout <branch>
] as equivalent to$ git checkout -b <branch> --track <remote>/<branch>
Simply run
git checkout -b test_branch --track origin/test_branch
instead. Or update to a more recent version of Git.
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?
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 :)