cannot checkout remote git branch

Question

I\'m in a github local clone. Below is the list of branches:

$ git branch -a
* master
  online-demo
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/de         


        

Answer 1

You don't have any local branch called develop. When doing git checkout develop and no local branches are found, git will understand that you want to make a new local branch called develop, based on a develop branch in a remote repo, if any exists. In your case, you have 2 such branches origin/develop and pateketrueke/develop, so there is an ambiguity.

You can be more explicit about it by using the following form:

git branch develop origin/develop
git checkout develop

or

git branch develop pateketrueke/develop
git checkout develop

depending on what you want.

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These can be abbreviated as:

git checkout -b develop origin/develop

or

git checkout -b develop pateketrueke/develop