How to do a “git checkout -b <branchname>” 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 origin is the remote and deploy is the tag I want to check out, but I get

fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches.
Did you intend to checkout 'origin/deploy' which can not be resolved as commit?

UPDATE: I've just discovered that

git fetch --all -t

was not working properly for me. While it downloads all branches, it does not download all tags, so when I checked out deploy it was and old tag. Now I execute

git fetch --all && git fetch -t

This way when I create a new branch based on a tag

git checkout -b test deploy

the new branch is up to date with the last deploy.

Answer 1

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 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

You need to run

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

Answer 4

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>