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This article will show you how to switch remote Git branches using checkoutthe command. The version control tool that allows you to support and manage variable versions of your application in a team of members is the Git version control tool. When your application encounters new updates, Git prefers to roll back those changes to the previous version and merge the two versions into a new version.

As we know, in Git we have branches that allow us to work in multiple environments, with different users working at the same time. In Git, we have a master branch which is the main branch that holds our security code, and this code is placed when our application is almost ready for production. Also, when we want to update the application, we can add more commits to this branch. This approach is ideal for minor commits, but for big commits, it is not so suitable. For major commits, you can use other branches as well.

To create and use a new branch, we use the following command:

# create a new branch
git branch branch-name
# change environment to the new branch
git checkout branch-name

In the above command, we have created a new branch. We will check out the branch and then add new changes; after that, we will merge it with the master branch and push it to the latest remote branch. But imagine if the remote branch already exists and we have to pull the branch and the related work with all its changes to our local branch, then we will run git checkout remote branch.

In Git, checkoutit can be explained as the act of switching between various versions of a target unit. The command used for checkout in Git is that git checkoutit operates on three well-defined units: files, commits, and branches. git checkoutIt can also be used to view old commits, but almost all of the targets of this document will be switching operations on branches.

If we say another developer on the same repository has created a remote branch, and we want to pull that branch that other developer has created. Here is how we have to do it:

List Git's available branches

The result of the following command will show a list of branches available for switching. For remote branches, there will be a remote/originprefix used with them.

git branch -a

Get all Git remote branches

With the help of the following command, we will fetch the remote branch from its repository. originis the name of the remote branch we are targeting. If we have a upstreamremote name, we can refer to it as git fetch upstream.

git fetch origin

Pull changes from a Git remote branch

As we all know, we can't make changes directly on the remote branch. So here we need a local working copy. With the help of the remote branch, we will switch to the branch we are interested in; here is how we do it.

git checkout -b test origin/test