Git how to fetch a remote branch

In this article you will learn that how you can pull all remote branches to you local:

 

You can use the command git fetch to download the remote branches from a remote repository. git fetch retrieves all the branches, tags, and commits from the remote repository, but it does not automatically merge or modify your local branches.

 

Here's an example of how to use git fetch to download a specific remote branch:

git fetch <remote> <branch>

<remote> is the name of the remote repository, and <branch> is the name of the remote branch you want to download. For example, if you want to download the remote branch named feature from a remote repository named origin, you can use the following command:

 

git fetch origin feature

This will download the feature branch from the origin remote repository and create a new local branch with the same name. You can check the local branches after fetching, using git branch -a, it will show you all the branches including the remote ones.

 

You can also use git pull which is a combination of git fetch and git merge in one command, it retrieves the remote branches from a remote repository and automatically merge it into the current local branch.

 

 git pull <remote> <branch>

 

It's important to note that git pull can cause merge conflicts if changes have been made to the same lines of code in different branches, if that happens you'll need to resolve the conflicts before the merge can happen.


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