git-cli-examples.md

Gitflow CLI Examples

Create new local branch from remote branch (origin)

git checkout -b <local-branch-name> --track <origin/remote-branch-name>

• example:

git checkout -b dev --track origin/dev

Fetch latest changes from remote branch without checking out of local branch

git fetch origin <remote-branch>:<local-branch>

• Example: fetch latest remote prod branch into local prod branch while working in a separate branch feature/my-feature-branch then

# fetch origin
git fetch origin prod:prod

# merging into my current feature branch
git merge prod