Git checkout checks out the remote branch

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Git checkout checks out the remote branch

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This article outlines the steps required to checkout a remote Git branch that does not exist in your local repository.

When collaborating as a team on a project, a developer can create a new branch and push it to a remote repository. Other developers must download the branch from the remote to access it locally.

So, how do you checkout a branch like this?

Check out a remote Git branch using a remote

Suppose we are collaborating on a project as a team, and one developer creates a test branch and pushes it to the remote, how do we check out the test branch locally?

First, we need to fetch from the remote repository. We will run:

$ git fetch

This will bring all the changes from the remote repository to our local machine. We can git branchview all the branches available for checkout using the command as shown below.

$ git branch -v -a

This will give us all the remote and local branches available in the repository. To start working on the test branch, we will use git checkoutthe command as shown below.

$ git checkout Test

By default, Git will switch to the testing branch and set it up to track the testing branch from our remote.

Checking out remote Git branches with multiple remotes

Again, we'll start by getting it remotely. However, this time, we'll specify a remote.

$ git fetch origin

We will then use git checkoutthe command to create a local branch based on the remote branch.

$ git checkout Test

To checkout a remote branch that doesn't exist in our local repository, we need to fetch it from the remote first.

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