Re: stuck and need unstuck (git checkout)

> I was on a branch (local tracked with remote), and I wanted to checkout a
> remote branch so did:
>     $git co myRemoteBranch
>
> and got a message that a lot of jar files were being untracked (files were
> locked).  I had a server running that had some of the jar files locked, so
> it could not update and untracked them all.
>
> What I want to do now is:
>     1. switch branches
>     2. delete this locally created branch
>     3.  re-check out again so all will be well.
>
> I cannot switch branches because it says my untracked files will be
> overwritten.  How do I switch branches? I have no commits to make and simply
> want to go back.  git reset and git stash do not get me there.