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I have two branches one is called master the other is called dev I am currently in the master branch and I want to go to the dev branch to move a file to the development server. however when I perform a
$ git checkout dev
I get the message:
The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout:
pages/memclub/images/subheaders/leadership.png pages/memclub/images/subheaders/male.png pages/memclub/images/subheaders/marketing.png pages/memclub/images/subheaders/training.png
I dont want to commit the files to the master, they are not ready to be pushed.
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git checkout does not affect untracked files. Git only manages tracked files, and it works fairly hard to avoid letting you lose data (which is critical).
The Git “Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout” error occurs when you make changes on two branches without committing or stashing those changes and try to navigate between the branches. You can fix this issue by either stashing your changes for later or adding them to a commit.
First you'll want to add the files in question so that they're tracked by Git (you don't have to commit any changes, but Git needs to know about the files):
git add pages/memclub/images/subheaders/leadership.png pages/memclub/images/subheaders/male.png
git add pages/memclub/images/subheaders/marketing.png pages/memclub/images/subheaders/training.png
Then you can stash your changes:
git stash
When you're ready to start working on the files again, you can use:
git stash pop
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