If you're working on your development environment but you need access to a branch that someone else has pushed to "origin" then you'll need to follow these steps.
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You must fetch origin to get all of the remote branches that are available. To fetch origin simply move to your working directory and type: git fetch origin
The easiest way to get the remote branch is by checking it out. To do so simply type: git checkout -b branch_name origin/branch_name This will checkout the remote branch called branch_name into a local branch with the same name.
Sometimes we start writing code without managing our branches in advance. Then we make commits in master (or some other base branch) when we intended to carve off a new feature branch.
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