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mathk
mathk

Reputation: 8123

Git switching branch

There is something I don't get yet with Git. It is branching.

So let’s say that I have a local repository A which I clone from a remote one B. So now A have the master branch checked out.

So when I push from A it goes to B master.

B is just a clone on GitHub, a clone of C.

From time to time, in order to get in sync, I pull from the C master branch.

But now the C master branch is quite broken for the time being. Since from A I had pull from C, my local A is also buggy.

So I would like from A to pull the C stable branch. How can I do it in this situation?

Do you create a new branch on A and pull from C? But since A has the C master change, I need to revert it first...

Upvotes: 9

Views: 29818

Answers (2)

urschrei
urschrei

Reputation: 26859

In two lines:
git fetch C
git checkout -b myCopy -t C/stable-branch

myCopy is now a local branch of C/stable-branch, and is tracking it, so you can do git push and git pull without a refspec.

Upvotes: 7

poke
poke

Reputation: 387507

git fetch C
git checkout C/stable-branch
git checkout -b myCopy

Then myCopy is a local (copied) branch of C's stable one.

Upvotes: 13

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