cannot checkout remote git branch

问题:

I'm in a github local clone. Below is the list of branches:

$ git branch -a
* master
  online-demo
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/develop
  remotes/origin/gh-pages
  remotes/origin/master
  remotes/origin/online-demo
  remotes/pateketrueke/develop
  remotes/pateketrueke/gh-pages
  remotes/pateketrueke/master

When I try to checkout a remote branch, I get an error:

$ git checkout develop
error: pathspec 'develop' did not match any file(s) known to git.

I can't figure out where does that come from. I guess I've been doing such checkouts for ages. Maybe I'm missing something. Anyway, I did git fetch, git fetch origin and git pull because I'm running out of ideas and there's still the same error.

回答1:

You don't have any local branch called develop. When doing git checkout develop and no local branches are found, git will understand that you want to make a new local branch called develop, based on a develop branch in a remote repo, if any exists. In your case, you have 2 such branches origin/develop and pateketrueke/develop, so there is an ambiguity.

You can be more explicit about it by using the following form:

git branch develop origin/develop
git checkout develop

or

git branch develop pateketrueke/develop
git checkout develop

depending on what you want.

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These can be abbreviated as:

git checkout -b develop origin/develop

or

git checkout -b develop pateketrueke/develop

回答2:

You can try checking out the full SHA commit