Git checkout remote branch

Git checkout remote branch

//To fetch a branch, you simply need to:

git fetch origin

//This will fetch all of the remote branches for you. With the remote branches 
//in hand, you now need to check out the branch you are interested in, giving 
//you a local working copy:

git checkout -b test origin/test

//Or

git branch test origin/test

With newer versions of git you can just enter:

$ git fetch
$ git checkout

git fetch will fetch all the remote branches, which you can verify with git branch -r (or git branch -rv), and as long as you don't have an existing branch with the name you want, you can just switch directly to it with git checkout . All this behavior assumes the default configuration for fetching "refs" for all remote branches and tags, which you can override with options or by configuring the remote. See git fetch --help for details. I like to also include the -p (--prune) option for removing dead remote-tracking refs for refs that have since been deleted on the remote.