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tmsblgh
tmsblgh

Reputation: 527

Cannot checkout branch from GitHub forked repository

I am trying to checkout a branch from my forked repository but it gives an error:

Repository: https://github.com/tmsblgh/codechecker/tree/issue799

MacBook-Pro:codechecker tmsblgh$ git branch -vv
* master acdc482 [origin/master] Merge pull request #1636 from gyorb/version68
MacBook-Pro:codechecker tmsblgh$ git --version
git version 2.17.1
MacBook-Pro:codechecker tmsblgh$ git fetch
MacBook-Pro:codechecker tmsblgh$ git checkout issue799
error: pathspec 'issue799' did not match any file(s) known to git.
Baloghs-MacBook-Pro:codechecker tmsblgh$ git remote -v
origin  https://github.com/tmsblgh/codechecker.git (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/tmsblgh/codechecker.git (push)
MacBook-Pro:codechecker tmsblgh$ git checkout issue799
error: pathspec 'issue799' did not match any file(s) known to git.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2463

Answers (3)

NickD
NickD

Reputation: 6412

You can set up a local branch to track the remote:

git checkout -b issue799 origin/issue799

EDIT (in response to comments):

I don't know why you are getting an error but here's what I did starting from scratch and it seems to work for me:

 $ git clone https://github.com/tmsblgh/codechecker.git
 Cloning into 'codechecker'...
 remote: Counting objects: 14825, done.        
 remote: Total 14825 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 14825        
 Receiving objects: 100% (14825/14825), 12.57 MiB | 22.70 MiB/s, done.
 Resolving deltas: 100% (10329/10329), done.

 $ cd codechecker/
 /home/nick/tmp/codechecker

 $ git branch
 * master

 $ git remote -v
 origin https://github.com/tmsblgh/codechecker.git (fetch)
 origin https://github.com/tmsblgh/codechecker.git (push)

 $ git checkout -b issue799 origin/issue799 
 Branch issue799 set up to track remote branch iue799 from origin.
 Switched to a new branch 'issue799'

Upvotes: 1

ElpieKay
ElpieKay

Reputation: 30878

It seems the local repo doesn't have origin/issue799.

#fetch the branch
git fetch origin issue799

#see if origin/issue799 exists
git branch -a

#if yes
git checkout issue799

#if not, create the local branch from FETCH_HEAD
git checkout -b issue799 FETCH_HEAD

#the next push after you make some new commits
git push -u origin issue799

Upvotes: 1

Jay Jodiwal
Jay Jodiwal

Reputation: 121

This branch is perhaps not in your local git setup. Try git checkout origin/issue799

P.S.: origin is the remote you are pointing to

Upvotes: 1

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