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I ran these commands, but the new branch that I fetched from Github doesn't show up when I run git branch after running git fetch origin:

CACSVML-13295:smartconnect amills001c$ git fetch origin remote: Counting objects: 426, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (223/223), done. remote: Total 426 (delta 269), reused 287 (delta 188) Receiving objects: 100% (426/426), 113.77 KiB | 76.00 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (269/269), done. From github.csv.comcast.com:Baymax/smartconnect * [new branch] enrichmentasync-module -> origin/enrichmentasync-module * [new branch] github_master_now -> origin/github_master_now * [new branch] master_next_localMermoryCache -> origin/master_next_localMermoryCache * [new tag] 0.0.4 -> 0.0.4 * [new tag] 0.0.5 -> 0.0.5 CACSVML-13295:smartconnect amills001c$ git branch github_master_now master * master_next master_with_quick_fix_for_prod mocha_deep_test priya_testing_branch

Is there any good reason why the new branch that was clearly fetched from the remote (origin) doesn't show up when I run the git branch command?

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  • git branch -r—are you including the -r? Commented Jul 16, 2015 at 23:39
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    As mentioned above, git branch -r shows the remote branches, but that is remote branches only. You can use git branch -a to list all branches, both local and remote. Commented Jul 16, 2015 at 23:45

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It will have brought down the branch as a remote tracking branch

origin/<branchname>

you can view it with 

git branch -r

If you want to work in it, you should create a local branch of the same name from it.

git checkout -b <branchname> origin/<branchname>

(In some versions of Git you may be able to just git checkout <branchname> and git will figure out that you want to create the new local branch from the remote tracking branch)

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