Whenever I am trying to run:

git checkout main

I am getting an error:

error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout:
    README.md
Please move or remove them before you switch branches.
Aborting

I have tried doing the following steps:

1.  git rm --cached README.md
    git checkout main 
   

   Didn't work.

2.  git add -all
    git commit -m "initial commit"
    git checkout main 
   

   Still the same output.

CodePudding user response：

If you don't want to keep README.md change:

git add README.md
git reset HEAD --hard
git checkout main

If you want to keep README.md change:

git add README.md
git commit -m "Your commit message"
git checkout main

or you want edit it at main branch later:

git add README.md
git stash
git checkout main
git stash pop

CodePudding user response：

Try: git checkout -f master

Also check branch name. The default branch name in Git is master.