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I have a repo that has another remote upstream besides origin. I can do git checkout origin/master, but when I run git checkout upstream/master, I get:
error: pathspec 'upstream/master' did not match any file(s) known to git. This does not work either:
$ git fetch upstream From https://github.com/getsentry/sentry * branch HEAD -> FETCH_HEAD $ git co -b asdf --track upstream/master fatal: Cannot update paths and switch to branch 'asdf' at the same time. Did you intend to checkout 'upstream/master' which can not be resolved as commit? How to check out branches on upstream remote as I do on origin remote? My git version is 2.1.2.
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In order to push your branch to another remote branch, use the “git push” command and specify the remote name, the name of your local branch as the name of the remote branch.
Actually, Git does not allow creating a (new, isolated) branch on a remote repository. Instead, you can push an existing local branch and thereby publish it on a remote repository.
Force a Checkout You can pass the -f or --force option with the git checkout command to force Git to switch branches, even if you have un-staged changes (in other words, the index of the working tree differs from HEAD ). Basically, it can be used to throw away local changes.
Just fetch the refs from the remote (this will fetch all branch, commit, refs etc for the upstream repo)
git fetch upstream After this, checkout the needed branch (this creates a local copy of the branch)
git checkout -b <branchname> --track upstream/<branchname> Now if you want to pull the changes in this branch in future, all you need to do is
git pull upstream <branchname> As mentioned here, try doing an explicit fetch on the branch name:
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