Question

I’m not new to git, but I’m not a gitmaster.

I have an existing branch on my git account, that I would like to pull, but when I do this :

git checkout previously_created_branch

I get..

error: pathspec 'previously_created_branch' did not match any file(s) known to git.

Anyone know how to accomplish this?

Answer 1

Git must know from where you want to get the branch

First fetch the changes from your remote repository:

git fetch origin

Then you can check it out with

git checkout -t origin/previously_created_branch

This will create a local branch of the same name, that tracks the remote branch