How to download a branch with git

Question

I have a project hosted on GitHub  I created a branch on one computer  then pushed my changes to GitHub with    git push origin branch-name   Now I am on a different computer  and I want to download that branch  So I tried   git pull origin branch-name      but all this did was overwrite my master branch with the changes in my new branch   What do I need to do to properly pull my remote branch  without overwriting existing branches

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Git clone and cd in the repo name       git clone https   github com PabloEzequiel iOS-AppleWach git Cloning into  iOS-AppleWach       cd iOS-AppleWach   Switch to the branch  a GitHub page  that I want     git checkout -b gh-pages origin gh-pages Branch gh-pages set up to track remote branch gh-pages from origin  Switched to a new branch  gh-pages    And pull the branch     git pull Already up-to-date    ls     ls index html      params json     stylesheets

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We can download a specified branch by using following magical command  git clone -b  lt  branch name  gt   lt remote repo url gt

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For any Git newbies like me  here are some steps you could follow to download a remote repository  and then switch to the branch that you want to view   They probably abuse Git in some way  but it did the job for me   -   Clone the repository you want to download the code for  in this example I ve picked the LRResty project on Github      git clone https   github com lukeredpath LRResty git   cd LRResty   Check what branch you are using at this point  it should be the master branch      git branch       master   Check out the branch you want  in my case it is called  arcified       git checkout -b arcified origin arcified  Branch arcified set up to track remote branch arcified from origin   Switched to a new branch  arcified    Confirm you are now using the branch you wanted     git branch       arcified   master   If you want to update the code again later  run git pull     git pull Already up-to-date

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Create a new directory  and do a clone instead   git clone  address of origin   name of branch

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Navigate to the folder on your new machine you want to download from git on git bash   Use below command to download the code from any branch you like  git clone  git ssh url  -b  Branch Name   It will download the respective branch code

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you can use    git clone  lt url gt  --branch  lt branch gt   to clone download only the contents of the branch   This was helpful to me especially  since the contents of my branch were entirely different from the master branch  though this is not usually the case   Hence  the suggestions listed by others above didn t help me and I would end up getting a copy of the master even after I checked out the branch and did a git pull   This command would directly give you the contents of the branch  It worked for me

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Thanks to a related question  I found out that I need to  checkout  the remote branch as a new local branch  and specify a new local branch name   git checkout -b newlocalbranchname origin branch-name   Or you can do   git checkout -t origin branch-name   The latter will create a branch that is also set to track the remote branch     Update  It s been 5 years since I originally posted this question  I ve learned a lot and git has improved since then  My usual workflow is a little different now   If I want to fetch the remote branches  I simply run   git pull   This will fetch all of the remote branches and merge the current branch  It will display an output that looks something like this   From github com andrewhavens example-project    dbd07ad  4316d29  master     - gt  origin master     new branch       production - gt  origin production     new branch       my-bugfix-branch - gt  origin my-bugfix-branch First  rewinding head to replay your work on top of it    Fast-forwarded master to 4316d296c55ac2e13992a22161fc327944bcf5b8    Now git knows about my new my-bugfix-branch  To switch to this branch  I can simply run   git checkout my-bugfix-branch   Normally  I would need to create the branch before I could check it out  but in newer versions of git  it s smart enough to know that you want to checkout a local copy of this remote branch

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You could use git remote like   git fetch origin   and then setup a local branch to track the remote branch like below   git branch --track  local-branch-name  origin remote-branch-name   You would now have the contents of the remote github branch in local-branch-name   You could switch to that local-branch-name and start work   git checkout  local-branch-name

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git checkout -b branch name  git pull origin branch name

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