How to do a “git checkout -b ” from a remote tag

Question

I\'m trying to create a branch from a remote tag, but it seems there\'s no way to do it. When I try

git checkout -b test origin/deploy

where or

Answer 1

to list all the tags

git fetch
git tags -l 

to create a local branch that points to the tag

git checkout tags/<tag_name> -b <branch_name>
git checkout -b <branch_name> tags/<tag_name>

Answer 2

I'm not sure you can do this directly. You're probably stuck with doing a fetch and then a checkout:

git fetch origin
git checkout -b test tag-name

By the way, I wouldn't recommend using a tag name like "deploy".

Answer 3

I'm not a git guru, but I had used something like this before and it seemed to have worked fine:

git pull (or fetch, just need to make sure you are updated)
git checkout -b test remotes/origin/deploy

Answer 4

You need to run

git pull
git checkout -b <new-branch-name> remotes/origin/<source-branch-name>