Question

I am really confused about how git checkout would work.

Let’s say I have two remotes:

origin
alternative

Let’s say both remotes have a branch called master.

What would happen if I do git checkout master? Would I be checking out the master of origin or the master of alternative? How would I change to the other one?

Answer 1

git checkout master

Grabs checks out the local branch named master.

git checkout -b NEWBRANCHNAME1 origin/master
git checkout -b NEWBRANCHNAME2 alternative/master

Would create local branches that you can work on.