Checking out someone else's branch

Use case

A colleague has opened a PR. I want to check out their branch on my own machine so I can run it and test their changes

Instructions

Assumptions: You have the repo checked out and set up locally on your machine. You work on it regularly.

• Get the branch name that you want
• Back in your terminal, get thee to wherever you have this repo
• I always check out main and update it at this point, just to be fresh
• Now run git fetch to load all the remote branches
• Then run git checkout <branch-name>

You are now in a new branch on your local machine that is a copy of the branch at the remote.

Another "thing I have known for a while but sometimes forget."