listing and switching /checkout to remote branch error

Question

git ls-remote origin lists all the remote with their commit IDs,

xxxx41   refs/heads/ABC
xxxx92   refs/heads/dummy_xyz
xxxx32   refs/heads/Feature/ABC
xxxx77   refs/heads/Feature/ABC-mgc

now when i checkout to any of the branch i get an error

error: pathspec "/Feature/ABC" or "/Feature/ABC-mgc" did not match any files known to git

i followed some questions on stack Remote branch not found

@schwern did wonderful explanation however i could not able to checkout.

In the provided answer, if fetch doesn't help, can you show your `checkout` command? Maybe you're accidentally prefixing the branch name with the `/` character... — TTT, Jan 13 '23 at 16:12
What does `git branch --all` show? If `remotes/origin/Feature/ABC` is not listed, then [Yedidya Rashi's answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/75111362/23118) is the solution. — hlovdal, Jan 13 '23 at 18:21
@hlovdal git branch --all shows only two branches, "develop, remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/develop & remotes/origin/develop — cloudcop, Jan 13 '23 at 20:21

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 13 '23 at 15:41

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Try to fetch the branches first:

git fetch
git checkout {the branch that you want}

answered Jan 13 '23 at 15:41

Yedidya Rashi

Thanks Rashi, yes i tried git tech, git fetch -all, also tried with --depth=1 but nothing worked – cloudcop Jan 13 '23 at 20:26

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