git switches to remote branch

Transferred from: http://www.barretlee.com/blog/2014/04/30/switch-branch-in-git/

Remote repository git clone down and when you execute GIT branch, you'll only see

* master

Do not see other branches, even if there are other branches on the remote repository, use the

git branch -va

You can view the local + remote branches list

master              0840594 merge master and 1.0.0remotes/origin/1.0.0 743012a ‘update‘remotes/origin/2.0.0 2787838 udpateremotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/masterremotes/origin/master 0840594 merge master and 1.0.0

If you want to switch to origin/2.0.0 's branch, we can

git branch remotes/origin/2.0.0

But the result is not satisfactory:

* (detached from origin/2.0.0)master

Git branch will see the above information, and here's one more step:

2.0.0

-B means base, with the current branch as base, and a new branch named 2.0.0, which of course can also use other names. At this point, you can see the following GIT branch:

$ git br  master* 2.0.0

It's OK.

The most straightforward approach is to:

git checkout -t origin/2.0.0

Ability to create a new local branch and extract the remote branch directly.

git switches to remote branch