error: pathspec 'test-branch' did not match any file(s) known to git

Question

I am a new user of Git. I have forked a repository called Spoon-Knife (available for practicing forking with Git). Then, I cloned it locally by running

git c         


        

Answer 1

The modern Git should able to detect remote branches and create a local one on checkout.

However if you did a shallow clone (e.g. with --depth 1), try the following commands to correct it:

git config remote.origin.fetch '+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*'
git fetch --all

and try to checkout out the branch again.

Alternatively try to unshallow your clone, e.g. git fetch --unshallow and try again.

^{See also: How to fetch all remote branches?}

Answer 2

This error can also appear if your git branch is not correct even though case sensitive wise. In my case I was getting this error as actual branch name was "CORE-something" but I was taking pull like "core-something".

Answer 3

git fetch && git checkout branch-name

Answer 4

Solution:

To fix it you need to fetch first

$ git fetch origin

$ git rebase origin/master

Current branch master is up to date.

$ git checkout develop

Branch develop set up to track remote branch develop from origin.

Switched to a new branch ‘develop’

Answer 5

Try cloning before doing the checkout.

do git clone "whee to find it" then after cloning check out the branch

Answer 6

My friend, you need to create those corresponding branches locally first, in order to check-out to those other two branches, using this line of code

git branch test-branch  

and

git branch change-the-title

then only you will be able to do git checkout to those branches

Also after creating each branch, take latest changes of those particular branches by using git pull origin branch_name as shown in below code

git branch test-branch
git checkout test-branch
git pull origin test-branch

and for other branch named change-the-title run following code =>

git branch change-the-title
git checkout change-the-title
git pull origin change-the-title

Happy programming :)