git pull on a different branch
I found an incantation that worked for me:
git fetch origin master:master
then (if you want to merge right away):
git merge master
I was really surprised how hard it was to find an answer to this since it seems like it would be a common use case.
Try this:
git pull yourRepositoryName master
We can fetch changes from another branch in the same repository using git pull
command like this:
$ git pull origin <target-branch>
See the EXAMPLES
section of man git-pull
:
• Merge into the current branch the remote branch next: $ git pull origin next