未知的git分支已签出

Question

I have a branch called ChartFeature but I accidentally typed git checkout CHartFeature and ended up with this in powershell/poshgit:

C:\git\Charting [CHartFeature]> git status
On branch CHartFeature
nothing to commit, working tree clean

What happened here? If I look in SourceTree it does not show the branch, but I can (and got myself into trouble) when I committed files to this branch which I never created. (I never typed git checkout -b CHartFeature but I did need to merge it into ChartFeature .)

If I list the local branches this erroneous branch does not exist:

C:\git\Charting [CHartFeature]> git branch
  ChartFeature
  develop
  master

What is git doing when I type git checkout CHartFeature without having created that branch? What happened to the commits I made there?

What's more, is it safe to type git branch -d CHartFeature ? What would happen if I did?

Answer 1

Seems this issue due to case sensitiveness in Windows.

Try to rename ./.git/refs/heads/CHartFeature to ChartFeature manually. Or any CHartFeature presented in .git folder.

Answer 2

Check what branches exist on your repo :

git branch
git branch -r  # view remote branches

If CHartFeature exists, but ChartFeature doesn't, try renaming your current branch :

git branch -m ChartFeature