How to checkout to a remote branch that someone else is working on in git?
Ever been in a situation where you need to collaborate with someone, but you don't have that branch on our local repo? How do we get that, as doing a checkout will not work?
First, fetch all branches from remote:
git fetch --all
Say you want to checkout to production from the remote.
git checkout --track origin/production
# Branch production set up to track remote branch production from origin.
# Switched to a new branch 'production'
(--trackis shorthand forgit checkout -b [branch] [remotename]/[branch])
This will give you a local copy of the branch production, and any update that has been pushed will also show up remotely