Git asks me to commit or stash changes on checkout master, even though all changes were committed?

Question

I have two branches locally, master and Berislav. The latter is currently active, and I have committed all the changes. When I try to checkout to <

Answer 1

I had a similar problem on a fresh clone. I just forced the checkout with the --force (-f) flag

git checkout --force some_branch 

Probably not the best way of resolving the issue on a repo that you are making changes to, but in my case I was sure I hadn't made any changes, and just wanted to switch branch.