Error when changing to master branch: my local changes would be overwritten by checkout

Question

This question is similar to this one, but more specific.

I have a project with two branches (staging and beta).

I develop

Answer 1

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.