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Git: How to pull a branch from the upstream to the local repo in 5 steps
Hello Fellow CodeNewbies ,
I am collaborating with a friend to create a project in React.
I created a repo for the project, and my teammate forked this repo.
Recently, I created a branch to made some changes. Then I pushed this branch to the remote repo and created a pull request.
I asked my teammate to pull this branch and test things out locally before we merge it into the main
branch.
After making sure that we don't have anything to fetch and merge from the remote repo, and after several attempts, we still couldn't pull the branch from the remote repo.
We mostly got the error of fatal: couldn't find remote ref <branch-name>
.
Then we tried to figure things out.
Looking from my teammate's side, my repo is the upstream
repo. He then forked this repo, and it automatically becomes his origin
repo.
For him to be able to fetch and pull a branch that hasn't been merged to main
from the upstream
repo, his origin
repo should have access to the upstream
.
So, we need to set the origin
repo to point to the upstream
repo.
Pull a particular branch from the upstream
repo
Check our current configured remote repo for our fork.
git remote -v
If we haven't configured a remote that points to the
upstream
repo, we will get:origin <fork-repo-url> (fetch) origin <fork-repo-url> (push)
Add a new remote
upstream
repo that will be synced with theorigin
repo.git remote add upstream <original-repo-url>
original-repo-url
is the HTTPS URL of the repo that we fork.We can copy this link by going to the repo on GitHub, clicking the green button with "Code" written on it, and copying the HTTPS link.
Check if the new
upstream
has now been added.git remote -v
Now we should get:
origin <fork-repo-url> (fetch)origin <fork-repo-url> (push)upstream <original-repo-url> (fetch)upstream <original-repo-url> (push)
Fetch data from the
upstream
.git fetch upstream
By now, you will see in the command line that we have fetched the branches on the
upstream
repo, including the target branch.Navigate to the branch.
git checkout branch-name
Running this command will also automatically create a branch with the same name in our local repo.
Now you have the branch on your local repo and you can test out your teammates' changes locally!
Thank you for reading!
Last but not least, you can find me on Twitter. Let's connect!
Original Link: https://dev.to/adiatiayu/git-how-to-pull-a-branch-from-the-upstream-to-the-local-repo-in-5-steps-1ili
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