Question

I used to pull down jQuery-ui by doing

git clone git://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/
git checkout 1.8.6

This stopped working today. After I do a git clone on an empty repository, the checkout fails with:

error: You have local changes to
‘demos/spinner/currency.html’; cannot
switch branches.

Any recommendations on how to fix this? I don’t want to pull zips of 1.8.6, I want the ease of being able to switch between old and new branches of jQuery UI for testing.

Answer 1

You have local modifications in your working copy. Thus you can’t switch.

Either commit those changes using git commit or reset them using git reset --hard

Since you are getting this on git clone I suspect this may be related to your core.autocrlf setting.

Try running git diff – If you see all lines in the file being marked as changed git is converting the line endings upon checkout.

You can fix this by running

git config --global core.autocrlf false

Retry the clone/checkout after setting core.autocrlf to false. This should have fixed the issue

Hope this helps.