Unable to checkout to local branch

[matheusamazonas]

I am facing this same issue on two different repositories. I have a branch named develop and I am not aware to switch to it. I've tried double clicking on the branch name and also right clicking and selecting "Checkout develop". Nothing happens. The history doesn't contain a checkout develop attempt. There is no progress bar or any popup displayed.

I can check every other branch out, but not develop. I have a hunch that this might be related to worktrees because the only repositories that I can reproduce this issue are the ones that I have worktree set up, and the worktree I'm currently using was based on the develop branch. Here's a list of all the branches I currently have:

If I try to checkout another branch that has a worktree setup (like master), a new Fork tab is opened in that workspace.

Fork versions I could reproduce the issue:

• 2.45.2.
• 2.46.1

macOS 14.6.1.

[matheusamazonas]

I was not able to reproduce this issue on Fork:

• 2.44.2.
• 2.44.3.
• 2.44.4.
• 2.44.5.
• 2.44.6.

But I was able to reproduce it on:

• 2.45.1.
• 2.45.2.
• 2.46.1

So it seems that 2.45.X broke it for me.

[DanPristupov]

Do you mean worktrees (git feature) or worspaces (the ability to manage tabs in Fork)?

Starting 2.45, if a branch is tied to a worktree, instead of checkout Fork opens corresponding worktree repo in a new tab.

[matheusamazonas]

Sorry, I meant worktrees.

I understand the 2.45 behavior, but that does not happen. Nothing happens if I try the check the develop branch out. A new tab is opened if I try to check the master branch out, but not develop.

I also did not expect a new tab to be opened when I try to check develop out, because that's the branch that my current worktree is based off. I just want to check the branch out.

[DanPristupov]

Thank you for the details. Let me have a look.

[DanPristupov]

Can you open 'Worktrees' section on the sidebar and check which worktree is on the develop branch? Can you open this worktree?

[matheusamazonas]

On Fork 2.46.2, this is what my sidebar looks like:

• I'm currently on the corpus-vr-headset-develop worktree, in the feature/blokki_review branch.
• While on this worktree, if I try to check the develop branch out, nothing happens.
• While on this worktree, if I try to check the master branch out, a new tab in the corpus-vr-headset-master (which has the master branch checked out) is opened.
• Still on the new (corpus-vr-headset-master worktree) tab, if I try to check the develop branch out, nothing happens.

[matheusamazonas]

It's also worth noting that before jumping to the feature/blokki_review branch, my corpus-vr-headset-develop worktree was on the develop branch. I just can't switch back to it.

[DanPristupov]

Check tooltips over the worktree items. Does any of them track 'develop'?

[matheusamazonas]

No.

• The corpus-vr-headset-develop worktree is tracking feature/blokki_review.
• The corpus-vr-headset-master worktree is tracking master.

[DanPristupov]

Can you send me an email (support@fork.dev) and I'll send you a debug build with verbose logging, please?

[matheusamazonas]

Any updates on this? Were you able to reproduce the bug?

[DanPristupov]

Well, as you and I found out, the parent repo Development is on the develop branch, even though it's a bare repo.

I didn't check if Fork can recognize whether parent repo is bare yet, but you can fix the problem by changing the active branch in the Development repo.

[matheusamazonas]

If I understood correctly, bare repos can't be checked out and they are never in a branch. The following commands don't work in bare repos:

work@Matheus-MBP corpus-vr-headset % git status
fatal: this operation must be run in a work tree
work@Matheus-MBP corpus-vr-headset % git checkout master
fatal: this operation must be run in a work tree

[matheusamazonas]

And just to confirm my folder structure: the Development folder isn't a git repository:

work@Matheus-MBP ~ % cd ~/Development 
work@Matheus-MBP Development % git status
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

The Development/corpus-vr-headset is a bare git repository:

work@Matheus-MBP Development % cd ~/Development/corpus-vr-headset 
work@Matheus-MBP corpus-vr-headset % git worktree list
/Users/work/Development/corpus-vr-headset                            (bare)
/Users/work/Development/corpus-vr-headset/corpus-vr-headset-develop  f483f191f [develop]
/Users/work/Development/corpus-vr-headset/corpus-vr-headset-master   51cff94d3 [master]
work@Matheus-MBP corpus-vr-headset % git status
fatal: this operation must be run in a work tree

[DanPristupov]

bare repos can't be checked out and they are never in a branch.

Bare repos have active branch.

Here is how to change it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3301956/git-correct-way-to-change-active-branch-in-a-bare-repository

if you want the default branch to be something other than master, you need to do this:
git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/mybranch