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 clone https://github.com/rohinichoudhary/Spoon-Knife.git
This repository contains three branches, i.e.
master
,test-branch
,change-the-title
.
When I run git branch
, it only shows *master
, not the remaining two branches. And when I run
git checkout test-branch
I get the following error:
error: pathspec 'test-branch' did not match any file(s) known to git.
Why is this happening? How can I solve this problem?
git branch
doesn't listtest_branch
, because no such local branch exist in your local repo, yet. When cloning a repo, only one local branch (master
, here) is created and checked out in the resulting clone, irrespective of the number of branches that exist in the remote repo that you cloned from. At this stage,test_branch
only exist in your repo as a remote-tracking branch, not as a local branch.You must be using an "old" version of Git. In more recent versions (from v1.7.0-rc0 onwards),
Simply run
instead. Or update to a more recent version of Git.