I believe this occurs when you are trying to checkout a remote branch that your local git repo is not aware of yet. Try: git remote show origin If the remote branch you want to checkout is under "New remote branches" and not "Tracked remote…
1. checkout one branch, show status user@vbox:/mnt/tmp$ git checkout masterSwitched to branch 'master'user@vbox:/mnt/tmp$ git status# On branch master# Changes not staged for commit:# (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be commi…