Source tree cannot see feature branch created from a project branch

Question

Hi,

A clone of a project branch was made to my local drive and opened using Sourcetree. I then created a new feature branch from this project branch in JIRA and both branches are hosted in Bitbucket. However, Sourcetree seems unable to see the remote feature branch at all. I tried 'git fetch' , 'git checkout <feature_branch>'but still could not get the feature branch show up in Sourcetree.

I tried both Sourcetree and git command but neither worked. When I click 'Checkout in Sourcetree' next to the name of feature branch in Bitbucket, there is an error message showing 'origin/feature_branch is not a commit and a branch cannot be created from it'.

Could you please suggest what I need to do to to get the feature branch created from a project branch?

Thanks.

Xintong

Ben McCallum · Answer

This just happened to me to. Bizarre. Appears in Branches page of web UI, but no amount of `git fetch` would have it appear in VS's Team Explorer listing of branches, and trying to do `git checkout` would say "error: pathspec 'branch-name' dit not match any file(s) known to git".

Went for -b above and will see how I go pushing it back up.

Xintong Wang · Answer

BTW, I do not think there is a permission issue. Alternatively I found I could use git checkout -b feature-branch to pull it down to local repository. But just let you know the issue is still there.

Xintong Wang · Answer

I just created a new feature branch from the project branch for another JIRA ticket. I can see it in Bitbucket, however still the same, git branch --remote can only see the project branch but cannot find this new feature branch. And this new feature branch does not show up in REMOTES/origin in Sourcetree.  'Check out in Sourcetree' as mentioned above showed the same error message... 'this is not a commit and this branch cannot be created.'