Answer: How do I check out a remote Git branch?

answer re: How do I check out a remote Git branch?

Nov 24 '09

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Sidenote: With modern Git (>= 1.6.6), you are able to use just

git checkout test

(note that it is 'test' not 'origin/test') to perform magical DWIM-mery and create local branch 'test' for you, for which upstream would be remote-tracking branch 'origin/test'.

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