git pull displays “fatal: Couldn't find remote ref refs/heads/xxxx” and hangs up

Question

I created a branch called \'6796\', then I pushed it to remote, checked it out on another machine, made other edits, pushed it, then merged it with the master, and deleted it -

Answer 1

To pull a remote branch locally, I do the following:

git checkout -b branchname // creates a local branch with the same name and checks out on it

git pull origin branchname // pulls the remote one onto your local one

The only time I did this and it didn't work, I deleted the repo, cloned it again and repeated the above 2 steps; it worked.