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user34299

Reputation: 397

How do I checkout a branch added after a Github clone?

I have cloned a Github repository with the "--recursive" qualifier. I then checked out the latest branch in that repository.

Later, the author of the repository added a new branch. When I attempted to checkout that new branch with git checkout branch-name, git reported that the branch-name was unknown.

Is there a way to get the new branch-name without again cloning the repository?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2459

Answers (3)

Romesh Liyanage
Romesh Liyanage

Reputation: 21

Use git fetch to retrieve new work done by other people including the newly added branch.

Fetching from a repository grabs all the new remote-tracking branches and tags without merging those changes into your own branches.

If you already have a local repository with a remote URL set up for the desired project, you can grab all the new information by using git fetch remotename

After fetching you can list all the branches including the newly added one by git branch -a

Then, you can select the required branch and checkout by git checkout requiredbranch-name

Upvotes: 2

Johnykutty
Johnykutty

Reputation: 12829

First fetch from your remote $ git fetch origin

You could list all branches with command git branch -a

And then, checkout required branch.

$ git fetch origin
$ git checkout --track origin/new_branch_1

Upvotes: 0

Ivan R.
Ivan R.

Reputation: 1915

To get all the data (and also newly added branches) from remote repository which you don't have yet use the command git fetch.

Upvotes: 3

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