LibGitSharp: Checkout Remote Branch

Question

i try to Checkout a Remotebranch via LibGitSharp. In git itself you use this comands:

git fetch origin
git checkout -b test origin/test

in

Answer 1

If I correctly understand your question, you're willing to create a local branch which would be configured to track the fetched remote tracking branch.

In other words, once you fetch a repository, your references contains remote tracking branches (eg. origin/theBranch) and you'd like to create a local branch bearing the same name (eg. theBranch).

The following example should demonstrate how to do this

const string localBranchName = "theBranch";

// The local branch doesn't exist yet
Assert.Null(repo.Branches[localBranchName]);

// Let's get a reference on the remote tracking branch...
const string trackedBranchName = "origin/theBranch";
Branch trackedBranch = repo.Branches[trackedBranchName];

// ...and create a local branch pointing at the same Commit
Branch branch = repo.CreateBranch(localBranchName, trackedBranch.Tip);

// The local branch is not configured to track anything
Assert.False(branch.IsTracking);

// So, let's configure the local branch to track the remote one.
Branch updatedBranch = repo.Branches.Update(branch,
    b => b.TrackedBranch = trackedBranch.CanonicalName);

// Bam! It's done.
Assert.True(updatedBranch.IsTracking);
Assert.Equal(trackedBranchName, updatedBranch.TrackedBranch.Name);

Note: More examples can be found in the BranchFixture.cs test suite.