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.
If you need to list all of of the remote branches in Git, check out our guide to get started.
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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:
Johngit fetch originThe easiest way to get the remote branch is by checking it out. To do so simply type:
git checkout -b branch_name origin/branch_nameIf you found this guide useful, you may also be interested in our guide on how to commit and push in Git.
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.