Pulling a Branch from GitHub
Now continue working on our new branch in our local Git.
Lets pull from our GitHub repository again so that our code is up-to-date:
Example
git pull
remote: Enumerating objects: 5, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (5/5), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
remote: Total 3 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3), 851 bytes | 9.00 KiB/s, done.
From https://{{remoteName}}.com/ExampleSite-test/hello-world
* [new branch] html-skeleton -> origin/html-skeleton
Already up to date.Now our main branch is up todate. And we can see that there is a new branch available on GitHub.
Example
git status
On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.
nothing to commit, working tree cleanAnd confirm which branches we have, and where we are working at the moment:
Example
git branch
* masterSo, we do not have the new branch on our local Git. But we know it is available on GitHub. So we can use the -a option to see all local and remote branches:
Example
git branch -a
* master
remotes/origin/html-skeleton
remotes/origin/masterNote
branch -r is for remote branches only.
We see that the branch html-skeleton is available remotely, but not on our local git. Lets check it out:
Example
git checkout html-skeleton
Switched to a new branch 'html-skeleton'
Branch 'html-skeleton' set up to track remote branch 'html-skeleton' from 'origin'.And check if it is all up to date:
Example
git pull
Already up to date.Which branches do we have now, and where are we working from?
Example
git branch
* html-skeleton
masterNow, open your favourite editor and confirm that the changes from the GitHub branch carried over.
That is how you pull a GitHub branch to your local Git.