Git Checkout a Remote Branch - Step by Step Guide
During last 4-5 years, git has captured the market for version control system completely. Here are step by step guide about how to checkout a git remote branch.
Git checkout remote branch - already cloned repository
If you already have a git repository clone locally and you want to checkout a remote branch, you can follow following steps
- Fetch all branches from remote repository first
- Once you have all remote branches fetched, you can checkout a particular branch by creating a local branch from remote branch.
Here are commands:
// fetch all branches from remote repository
git fetch origin
or
git fetch
// After fetching all branches, checkout branch
git checkout branch1
or
git checkout -b branch1 origin/branch1
You can also use a command to see if a remote branch is available locally or not.
git branch -r
Git checkout remote branch - new repository
If you don't have a local clone of the repository already available, then you will have to first clone the repository.
- Clone the repository
git clone <repository-url>
- When you clone the repository, all remote branches at that moment are already fetched. You can see a list of all remote branches by typing
git branch -r
- To checkout a particular remote branch, just use
git checkout branch-name