Question

I am having problems pulling a fork from github into a folder, where the parent repo resides.

I already have a working local folder where I can pull parent repo changes into.
Here are my steps:

1. Create local folder for forked repo
2. Fork a repo on github
3. Pull forked repo into local folder
4. Make my changes, commit and push them
5. Github has registered the commits

No problems so far. I have 2 sibling folders, (ORG) one with the original repo and (FORK) one with my fork that I can work on.
Now I need to pull my fork onto a second machine (for testing). Here are the steps on the secondary machine:

1. cd folderWith ORG repo
2. git remote add UniqueName git://github.com/myUserName/forkedRepoName.git
3. git branch -a does not show UniqueName. I think this is where the problem lies
4. git remote -v shows both a fetch and push entry for UniqueName. I only need fetch/pull
5. git branch fork. Create a new branch so I can switch between ORG and FORK repos
6. git checkout fork
7. git pull UniqueName/master. “fatal error: ‘UniqueName/master’ does not appear to be a git repository”

What am I doing wrong ?
I do not wish to have sibling folder on the secondary machine too, only another branch.

UPDATE:
git branch -a will first show the branches of UniqueName after you do a git fetch/pull.

Answer 1

For your last command, try git pull UniqueName master.