🚀 How to Pull a Branch from GitHub

When working with GitHub, you may need to pull a branch to get the latest updates or work on a specific feature branch. Here’s how you can do it.

📌 Steps to Pull a Branch from GitHub

1️⃣ Check Existing Branches

First, check the branches available in the remote repository:

git branch -r

This will list all remote branches, e.g.:

origin/mainorigin/developorigin/feature-branch

2️⃣ Fetch Latest Changes from Remote

Before pulling a branch, update your local repo with the latest data:

git fetch origin

3️⃣ Pull a Specific Branch

✅ If the branch already exists locally:

Switch to the branch and pull updates:

git checkout feature-branchgit pull origin feature-branch

✅ If the branch does NOT exist locally:

Download and switch to the branch:

git checkout -b feature-branch origin/feature-branch

or

git switch --track origin/feature-branch

4️⃣ Verify the Pulled Branch

Check the current branch:

git branch

The active branch will have a * next to it.

🔥 Example: Pulling a Feature Branch

git fetch origingit checkout -b new-feature origin/new-featuregit pull origin new-feature

🎯 Summary

✅ Fetch the latest changes → git fetch origin
✅ Check available branches → git branch -r
✅ Pull an existing local branch → git checkout branch-name && git pull origin branch-name
✅ Pull a new branch → git checkout -b branch-name origin/branch-name

Let me know if you need further help! 🚀😊