How to get a branch into a forked repo from the original repo in github

Question

I have forked a private repo (called X). Now in repo X a branch is created. How do I get the branch in repo X to appear in my fork of repo X?

Example

1. a private repo is created only has master
2. I fork private repo
3. a branch is created in private repo
4. now what do I do to get this branch in my fork

I would like to have that branch in my fork so that I can work on it and send a pull request for that branch to the original repo.

Thanks

Saad

Answer 1

Assuming that you have a remote set up for the private repo called 'origin', you can do the following:

git fetch origin                             # fetches history from origin repo
git checkout -b newBranch origin/newBranch   # create a local branch called 'newBranch' that tracks origin's newBranch