Is there any way I can work on another branch?
I forked only the main branch of a repo from Github. And now I have to work on another branch from that repo but can't find a way to get that branch to my local repo as forking is not an option because it already exists.
What options do I have? If you have any solution please help!
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Delete the previous fork and do it again forking all the branches
will it delete all the PRs I made from that fork
no need to deleate the fork you have now
make sure your current dir is clean then
git fetch upstream and git checkout -b newbranch upstream/newbranch
replpace newbranch with the name of the brach you havethe repo is JSON Schema and I forked it with default settings [only fork main branch] that is why facing this issue, SO I have main branch with me and I want
web-release-3 branch in my local repo so I will run the commands from the main and will be like git fetch upstream and git checkout -b web-release-3 upstream and I will get the branch web-release-3 in my local repo. Is that correct ?yep
its upstream/web-release-3 for the checkout command tho
hey Gad thank you so much
it worked
the only thing is for the checkout command it was giving me error like
fatal: 'upstream' is not a commit and a branch 'web-release-3' cannot be created from it
so I ran git checkout -b web-release-3 and then it workedoh sorry
ive never actually ran that command before lol
just had it in a giant list of "usefull cmds i might need one day"
Oh thats cool!