Step 1

git remote add origin https://github.com/ex-magazine/pickbazar.git

Step 2

sudo git fetch origin

Step 3

sudo git pull origin main

Let’s say there’s a remote branch created by another developer, and you want to pull that branch.

How you go about it

1. Fetch all remote branches

git fetch origin

This fetches all the remote branches from the repository. origin is the remote name you’re targetting. So if you had an upstream remote name, you can call git fetch upstream.

2. List the branches available for checkout

To see the branches available for checkout, run the following:

git branch -a

The output of this command is the list of branches available for checkout. For the remote branches, you’ll find them prefixed with remotes/origin.

3. Pull changes from a remote branch

Note that you cannot make changes directly on a remote branch. Hence, you need a copy of that branch. Say you wanted to copy the remote branch fix-failing-tests, here’s how you would do it:

git checkout -b fix-failing-tests origin/fix-failing-tests

What this does is:

  • it creates a new branch called fix-failing-tests
  • it checkouts that branch
  • it pulls changes from origin/fix-failing-tests to that branch

And now you have a copy of that remote branch. Also, you can push commits to that remote branch. For example, you make push a new commit like so:

touch new-file.js
git add .
git commit -m "add new file"
git push

This will push the committed changes to origin/fix-failing-tests. If you noticed, we didn’t have to specify where we were pushing the changes (like git push origin fix-failing-tests). That’s because git automatically sets the local branch to track the remote branch.

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