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Asked: 2026-06-10T23:36:33+00:00

I have two branches one is called master the other is called dev I

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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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  1. Editorial Team

    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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