Git and GitHubLesson 26Free preview

Pull Branch from GitHub

This lesson is part of Git · All levels

Summary

You can pull a branch from GitHub and work on it locally. The way is git fetch to update the remote reference, then git switch -c with -track to create a local branch that follows the remote branch. If the branch remote is removed, clear out the obsolete reference with git fetch --prune.

Key points

Git fetch origin updates the reference branch remote
Git switch -c <nama> --track origin/<nama> makes a local branch of the remote
Git fetch --prune clears remotely deleted references
The merge conflict is resolved manually and then continued with git merge --continue

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