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JavaScript Express Basics (2015) Using Templates with Express The “response.render” Method

Posted by Jessie Gibson
Jessie Gibson
Courses Plus Student 9,494 Points

Every time that I CD into the express-basics folder and run the git checkout responseRenderMethod I get an error.

Do I not have the folder setup correctly on github?

error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout: .gitignore package.json src/app.js src/mock/posts.json src/templates/index.jade src/templates/post.jade Please move or remove them before you can switch branches. Aborting

2 Answers

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points
Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points

Git is telling you there are changes you've made that you haven't added and committed yet. It you checkout a new branch now, those changes will be lost forever and git assumes that's something you don't want. After all, git's entire purpose is to track those changes and keep them around if you need them. You'll either need to add and commit the files (git add -A followed by git commit -m "Commit Message Here"), or use the --force flag when you checkout the branch if you just want to discard your edits.

Jessie Gibson
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Jessie Gibson
Courses Plus Student 9,494 Points
Jessie Gibson
Jessie Gibson
Courses Plus Student 9,494 Points

Thanks you.

I wasn't sure if i was suppose to be committing the changes to the git repository of the project