How to checkout a remote git branch
Ever happened to you that someone in the team pushes a new branch to the remote git repository and they you want to checkout their branch?
How to checkout a remote git branch
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Ever happened to you that someone in the team pushes a new branch to the remote git repository and they you want to checkout their branch?
If you have you should have experienced that a simple “git checkout branchname” will not work!
To do that, if you have only one remote repository, you can do the following:
git fetchgit checkout branch_name
Not if you have multiple “remotes” the above command will not work and you need to use the following command instead:
git checkout -b branch_name <remote repo name>/branch_name
or a shorter version would be
git checkout -t <remote repo name>/branch_name
If you use GIT regularly, I recommend to get this book and have it on your desk:
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