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I am wanting to bring a newly added remote branch into my local repository without interfering with my local branches. Is this possible?

When I do:

git branch -a

The new remote branch doesn't appear in the list. So if I try to fetch the origin/newremotebranch it says that it doesn't exist.

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    What if you just do git fetch origin? That should create new remote tracking branches for all existing remote branches. Commented Dec 22, 2011 at 4:26
  • I think I misunderstood what you were asking so I deleted my answer. Unfortunately, it looks like you were mid-comment when I deleted it! What was the output of the command, out of curiosity? Also, @GregHewgill's suggestion should work. Commented Dec 22, 2011 at 4:29
  • No yours did work. I had to do Greg Hewgills command first which updated the remote branches locally. Then I did your command and now it works. Commented Dec 22, 2011 at 4:31
  • Ah! Well, either of you should post an answer. Mine missed a step. Commented Dec 22, 2011 at 4:33
  • I posted an answer that should do the trick. Commented Dec 22, 2011 at 4:35

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The following command will update your remote tracking branches:

git fetch origin

This will create new remote tracking branches in your local repository for any remote branches that don't yet have one.

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You should be able to simply check out the remote branch:

git checkout -b new-branch-name origin/newremotebranch

Should start tracking, and you'll be able to fetch after that.

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I tried that and it gives me: fatal "git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches. Did you intend to checkout 'origin/newbranchname' which can not be resolved as commit?"
As per the comments, git fetch origin should make this possible.
git fetch origin will definitely fix it. However, should you ever get a similar error after doing a git fetch, make sure you didn't make a typo. I've gotten that error before by typing "orgin"
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You can even setup tracking. The commands - cf - Error when pull from remote branch

git branch --track my-other-branch origin/my-other branch git pull origin my-otherbranch
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