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There is a branch on remote I would like to work on. It is old and I no longer have an old copy of it on my local machine. It is really far behind master. Whenever I attempt to pull it I get conflicts. I just want to create an exact duplicate of the remote branch on my local system. Why would that lead to conflicts?
I tried:
git pull origin branch_name:branch_name
That created a new branch on my local machine with the right name, but it led to conflicts.
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If you have a single remote repository, then you can omit all arguments. just need to run git fetch , which will retrieve all branches and updates, and after that, run git checkout <branch> which will create a local copy of the branch because all branches are already loaded in your system.
The short answer is simple: no, the remote-tracking branch remains unaffected.
git fetch origin
git checkout -b newoldbranch oldoldbranch
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