Problem with checkout develop

[venteo22]

Hello community :)
I don't know why I can't checkout to the branch develop that my mate has created.
This is the error that I receive.

[TheAlbertDev]

The problem was solved during a videoconference. The problem was that a branch called develop/<something> had been created and that's why it didn't allow to create a develop branch. Internally, git stores branches as directories and files. If we do a branch restructure like:

• develop/A
• develop/B
• develop/C

git internally creates a develop folder and inside it puts the branches A, B and C. Since you have created a develop folder, there can no longer be a file (and therefore a branch) with the same name.

You can test how you can't create a folder and a file with the same name in the same folder.

To solve this, we renamed the branch develop/<something> to lab/<something> and then we were able to create the develop branch without problems.

These are the commands used:

git switch develop/<something>
git branch -m lab/<something>
git checkout -b develop