Checking out remote git branch?

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Hey guys how would I checkout a specific branch from another remote address?

Thanks

you can check what branches you have by: git branch -a. Then follow instructions in VonC answer — Mr. L, Mar 15 '11 at 17:43
Duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1783405/git-checkout-remote-branch? — Michael Myers, Mar 15 '11 at 17:55

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 15 '11 at 17:37

git checkout -b abranch origin/abranch

would allow you to create your own local branch, starting from a remote called origin, for the remote branch abranch.

That supposes you have declared a remote (which is done automatically when you clone a remote repo, declaring 'origin' as the default name for referencing all refspecs from that repo in the remotes/origin namespace)

If you have already an 'origin' upstream repo from your original clone, but you want to add another repo as a source for your pull/push workflow, see git remote (i.e git remote add ...).

Checking out remote git branch?

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