如何制作远程git分支的副本（不与我现有的分支合并）？

Question

Suppose that I have been working on a git repo and the branch I'm working on is called MyBranch .

My co-worker tells me that he has something that I should pull from his branch on his git repo . His branch is called HisBranch .

In order to do this, I type

git remote add MyCoworker $url
git checkout -b HisBranch
git pull MyCoworker HisBranch

When I do the git pull, it tells me that it is fetching data from the remote repo as intended, but since I created HisBranch locally by branching from MyBranch , it contains the same files and history as MyBranch , and git wants to merge the two together.

What I really want is to get a branch on my local repo that is identical to what I pulled from my co-workers branch, including the history. I do not wish to immediately merge it with my own branch.

Answer 1

$ git remote add MyCoworker $url
$ git fetch MyCoworker

It'll show sth like

...
* [new branch] HisBranch -> MyCoworker/HisBranch

then u can just check to his branch correctly:

$ git checkout HisBranch

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Btw, if ur repo is the main repo to work on (ur co-work forks it to his own), then u need to ask him to send a Pull Request (aka PR) to u instead.