How can I switch to another branch in git?

Question

Which one of these lines is correct?

git checkout \'another_branch\'

Or

git checkout origin \'another_branch\'
         


        

Answer 1

If you want the branch to track the remote branch, which is very important if you're going to commit changes to the branch and pull changes etc, you need to add a -t for the actual checkout like so: git checkout -t branchname