How to pull new files from git master?

Question

Hi I have been scouring all the forums and search engines for doing what I thought to be simple. I am trying to pull all the changes from my master git repo into a remote branch. It does that but does not pull in the new files created. How on earth can I make sure that new files are added to the branch with

git pull

I tried:

git checkout master newfile.html

and

git checkout HEAD -- newfile.html

I thought that by default 'pull' would just update everything from the master new or not new, but it is obviously not the case. How do I do this?

Answer 1

Hey thanks for your replies. It seems to have worked with all 3:

git checkout master
Already on 'master'
git merge master
git pull


Enter passphrase for key '/home/seytunn/.ssh/id_dsa': 
remote: Counting objects: 10, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (6/6), done.
remote: Total 10 (delta 7), reused 7 (delta 4), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (10/10), done.
From github.com:seytunn/my_rnnn
6fc621c..64afc61  master     -> origin/master
Updating 6fc621c..64afc61
Fast-forward
css/main.css |   21 +++++++-
require.html  |  152    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 172 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 require.html

Answer 2

I believe you have to do

git pull origin branch_name