How to checkout git branch that was created from the GitHub website?-CodePudding

So I've created a quick change on the GitHub repo, but it requires more work, adding unit tests, and running the build. So I have new branch created with web interface:

https://github.com/jcubic/prism/tree/patch-1

But when I use git pull, in the terminal, I have nothing was changed. When I use git branch -a I've got:

$ git branch -a
* master
  scheme-operators
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/master
  remotes/upstream/gh-pages
  remotes/upstream/maste

no branch patch-1. I have this in .git/config:

[remote "origin"]
        url = [email protected]:jcubic/prism.git
        fetch =  refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master

How I can update my local repo with stuff that is on GitHub?

CodePudding user response：

You need to fetch the branches from the remote first.

To fetch all remote branches run git fetch --all
Then to view all the branches run git branch -a
Then to checkout the branch run git checkout nameofnewbranch

CodePudding user response：

You need to use git fetch first.

This downloads all branches and their commit histories from GitHub (note that git pull also runs git fetch but also a git merge).

After running git fetch, you can see the remote branch with git branch -a.

Then, you can check it out using git checkout patch-1 or git checkout -b patch-1 remotes/origin/patch-1.