Why can I not switch branches?

Question

I\'m trying to switch branches in git but I\'m getting this error message:

error: you need to resolve your current index first

I\'m using g

Answer 1

I got this message when updating new files from remote and index got out of whack. Tried to fix the index, but resolving via Xcode 4.5, GitHub.app (103), and GitX.app (0.7.1) failed. So, I did this:

git commit -a -m "your commit message here"

which worked in bypassing the git index.

Two blog posts that helped me understand about Git and Xcode are: