Git pull a certain branch from GitHub

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I have a project with multiple branches  I ve been pushing them to GitHub  and now that someone else is working on the project I need to pull their branches from GitHub  It works fine in master  But say that someone created a branch xyz  How can I pull branch xyz from GitHub and merge it into branch xyz on my localhost   I actually have my answer here  Push and pull branches in Git  But I get an error     rejected   and something about  non fast forward    Any suggestions

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The best way is   git checkout -b  lt new branch gt   lt remote repo name gt   lt new branch gt

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Simply track your remote branches explicitly and a simple git pull will do just what you want   git branch -f remote branch name origin remote branch name git checkout remote branch name   The latter is a local operation   Or even more fitting in with the GitHub documentation on forking   git branch -f new local branch name upstream remote branch name

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But I get an error     rejected   and something about  non fast forward    That s because Git can t merge the changes from the branches into your current master  Let s say you ve checked out branch master  and you want to merge in the remote branch other-branch  When you do this     git pull origin other-branch   Git is basically doing this     git fetch origin other-branch  amp  amp  git merge other-branch   That is  a pull is just a fetch followed by a merge  However  when pull-ing  Git will only merge other-branch if it can perform a fast-forward merge  A fast-forward merge is a merge in which the head of the branch you are trying to merge into is a direct descendent of the head of the branch you want to merge  For example  if you have this history tree  then merging other-branch would result in a fast-forward merge   O-O-O-O-O-O             master    other-branch   However  this would not be a fast-forward merge       v master O-O-O     -O-O-O-O            other-branch   To solve your problem  first fetch the remote branch     git fetch origin other-branch   Then merge it into your current branch  I ll assume that s master   and fix any merge conflicts     git merge origin other-branch   Fix merge conflicts  if they occur   Add merge conflict fixes   git commit      And commit the merge

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git fetch will grab the latest list of branches   Now you can git checkout MyNewBranch   Done       For more info see docs  git fetch

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You could pull a branch to a branch with the following commands   git pull  repo   remotebranchname   localbranchname   git pull origin xyz xyz   When you are on the master branch you also could first checkout a branch like   git checkout -b xyz   This creates a new branch   xyz   from the master and directly checks it out   Then you do   git pull origin xyz   This pulls the new branch to your local xyz branch

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I am not sure I fully understand the problem  but pulling an existing branch is done like this  at least it works for me     git pull origin BRANCH   This is assuming that your local branch is created off of the origin BRANCH

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This helped me to get remote branch before merging it into other   git fetch repo xyz xyz git checkout xyz

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you may also do  git pull -r origin master   fix merge conflicts  if any  git rebase --continue   -r is for rebase  This will make you branch structure from          v  master        o-o-o-o-o       o-o-o             other branch   to          v  master        o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o                 other branch   This will lead to a cleaner history   Note  In case you have already pushed your other-branch to origin  or any other remote   you may have to force push your branch after rebase   git push -f origin other-branch

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for pulling the branch from GitHub you can use  git checkout --track origin the-branch-name   Make sure that the branch name is exactly the same

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I did   git branch -f new local branch name origin remote branch name   Instead of   git branch -f new local branch name upstream remote branch name   As suggested by  innaM   When I used the upstream version  it said  fatal  Not a valid object name   upstream remote branch name    I did not do git fetch origin as a comment suggested  but instead simply replaced upstream with origin  I guess they are equivalent

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Simply put  If you want to pull from GitHub the branch the branch I want   git fetch origin git branch -f the branch I want origin the branch I want git checkout the branch I want

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git pull  lt gitreponame gt   lt branchname gt    Usually if you have only repo assigned to your code then the gitreponame would be origin   If you are working on two repo s like one is local and another one for remote like you can check repo s list from git remote -v  this shows how many repo s are assigned to your current code   BranchName should exists into corresponding gitreponame   you can use following two commands to add or remove repo s  git remote add  lt gitreponame gt   lt repourl gt  git remote remove  lt gitreponame gt

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