With new version of Git 2.23 (git --version), you can use git switch as an alternative to git checkout as well.
To checkout a remote branch. (After git fetch, you can use git branch -a to view all branch name)
git fetch && git switch <branch_name>If you have more than one remote, you can use
git fetch --all && git switch <branch_name>Note: git fetch --all is equivalent to git remote update
Also, as pointed here in Eugene's answer above, if multiple remotes with same branch name exist then above command will not work. In that case, you can use below command with remote_name along with -c which creates a local copy of branch as well.
git fetch -all && git switch -c <branch_name> <remote_name>/<branch_name>Benefit of git switch is that it removes ambiguity by only targeting branch whereas git checkout can be used for both file name and branch .Like git checkout test can mean that test can be either a file name or branch and if you have file name as test and you type that to checkout a branch test thenif there is no test branch,it will reset contest of test file. git can get confused in somecases and will not produce desirable output as mentioned in oldman's answer above.
