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Posted by andrewthornton
andrewthornton
20,079 Points

Problem with GitHub Basics challenge.

The question asks to create the branch "add-readme" and switch to it as well using the checkout-b command. Yet when I do this I get an error saying I need to add the -b to the checkout...

Here's my code: 

git checkout-b add-readme

I don't know what's wrong! Any help would be appreciated!

1 Answer

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,692 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,692 Points

Hey there,

I believe there needs to be a space before the -b:

git checkout -b add-readme

Give that a shot and see. :dizzy:

andrewthornton
andrewthornton
20,079 Points

Yes this worked! Thank you Jason!