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title: Checkout a Remote Branch in Git
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# Checkout a remote branch workflow
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Depending on how many remotes are present for your local repo, follow the appropriate flow.
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## For repos with one remote:
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If your local repo is having just one remote for example just `origin`:
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git remote -v
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origin https://github.com/my_username/AwesomeRepo.git (fetch)
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origin https://github.com/my_username/AwesomeRepo.git (push)
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Then you can simply do:
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`git fetch`
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`git checkout some_branch_name`
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## For repos with multiple remote:
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If your local repo is having multiple remotes:
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git remote -v
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origin https://github.com/raisedadead/wiki.git (fetch)
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origin https://github.com/raisedadead/wiki.git (push)
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upstream https://github.com/FreeCodeCamp/wiki.git (fetch)
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upstream https://github.com/FreeCodeCamp/wiki.git (push)
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Then you have to specify a remote as well:
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`git fetch`
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`git checkout -b some_branch_name <remote>/some_branch_name`
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where `<remote>` in this example is either `upstream` or `origin`.
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