“Cannot update paths and switch to branch at the same time”

Question

I sometimes use the checkout -b option to create a new branch, check it out at the same time and set up tracking in one command.

In a new environment, I

Answer 1

For me I needed to add the remote:

git remote -add myRemoteName('origin' in your case) remoteGitURL

then I could fetch

git fetch myRemoteName