It looks like I made some mess with the underlying Git repository and it was broken, rendering it invalid.
Error:
error: pathspec 'development' did not match any file (s) known to git.
I used these commands but had no effect.
rm .git/refs/remotes/origin/development
git fetch
git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/development
There are different reasons for this error to occur.
In your case, it appears that you accidentally removed the development branch from the repository with git branch -D development . In this case, to resolve would need to recreate the local branch again with:
git checkout -b development
Or, if it is an alternative, do git clone again from the repository:).