Git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches

Question

My problem is related to Fatal Git error when switching branch.

I try to fetch a remote branch with the command

git checkout -b local-name origin/rem         


        

Answer 1

It's not very intuitive but this works well for me ...

  mkdir remote.git & cd remote.git & git init
  git remote add origin $REPO
  git fetch origin $BRANCH:refs/remotes/origin/$BRANCH        

THEN run the git branch --track command ...

  git branch --track $BRANCH origin/$BRANCH