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I own a git repo on github. A collaborator forked it and created branch A. I want to checkout that branch into a branch on my local machine called testA. I don't want to track it, I just need get the files.

Cristian Garcia
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  • If you hate tracking all that much you can get rid of it after following VonC's answer. This [answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/3046478/697012) shows you how to remove tracking. – Learath2 Jul 22 '14 at 09:54

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You need first to add a remote to that fork:

cd /path/to/your/repo
git remote add fork /url/to/fork

Then you can fetch and create your branch:

git fetch fork
git checkout -b testA fork/A --no-track
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