How to Checkout a Remote Branch in Git

Checkout a Remote Branch

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Checkout a Remote Branch

To check out a remote branch (for which no local tracking branch yet exists):

Use the git switch command where <branch> is the branch name and <remote> is the remote name (typically origin).

git switch -c <branch> <remote>/<branch>
Example
This creates a new local branch feature/new-ui tracking origin/feature/new-ui.
git switch -c feature/new-ui origin/feature/new-ui

With SmartGit

Double-click the remote branch in the Branches or Graph view.

In the Standard Window, the local branch automatically adopts the same name as the remote branch (e.g., origin/foo becomes foo).

In the Working Tree or Log Window, a dialog appears allowing you to specify the local branch name and whether tracking should be enabled.

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