How to pull a specific commit from a remote branch?

Question

How do I pull a specific commit (eg: with an id of 'xyz') to my local machine from a remote branch? Please note that since the commit of 'xyz', a few more commits were pushed to this branch.

Also, I am already on this remote branch and not the master.

The repo that I have only includes the master and the branch I want to pull from.

I'm aware there are many posts regarding this issue however none of them seem to focus specifically to my issue.

Answer 1

Assuming your branch name is <branchname> , you could do something like:

# (Optionally) Save your work to a 'temp' branch, in case you want to come back to it:
git checkout -b temp
git add -A .
git commit -m "WIP"

# Get back to your branch, and reset it to 'xyz':
git checkout <branchname>
git fetch origin
git reset --hard xyz

At this point, your branch is now at 'xyz' as per the remote, and you can start afresh from there.