I have executed the line below to switch to a new branch created by my teammate:
git checkout with-backend
I'm receiving the error below: error: pathspec 'with-backend' did not match any file(s) known to git
I tried executing this command:
git branch -a
The with-backend branch created by my teammate is not listed. Below is the result listed:
* main
remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/main
remotes/origin/main
2 Answers
First, switching branch is done with git switch (since Git 2.23, Q3 2019), not git checkout (which tries to manage both files and branches, making it confusing)
Second, git switch with-backend will work after git fetch because if its "guessing" mode:
If
<branch>is not found but there does exist a tracking branch in exactly one remote (call it<remote>) with a matching name, treat as equivalent to$ git switch -c <branch> --track <remote>/<branch>
Make sure you always pull latest changes from repo, before starting to work
git fetch <-- fetches all the latest changes from remote repo
OR
git pull <-- It is one step ahead of git fetch, it fetches remote changes and also merge local branch with remote branch
