From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:47:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Change checkout remotely.
Message-ID: <48C54907.4040408@gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <f5cc88f60809080842l34760997r4b821a79e7727d91@mail.gmail.com>

Marcello Henrique wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is it possible change checkout another work tree remotely and refresh all files?
> 
> For example: git remote other checkout other-branch-x

Yes, either

   git checkout origin/other-branch

or if you want to work on your own local branch, starting from the
remote tree:

   git checkout -b my-branch origin/other-branch

and "git pull" (or "git pull --rebase") when you want to synchronize
with upstream.

Paolo