Answer by Jason Song for How do I check out a remote Git branch?

for those have tried all the answers but still not succeeded, you can try to use my powershell script

$branchName = 'RemoteBranchNameToClone'git fetch origin "${branchName}:${branchName}"git checkout $branchName# Explicitly setup up the upstream to the right remote branchgit branch --set-upstream-to=$branchName $branchName

Reason analysis: why the common command sequence is not working?

git config --get remote.origin.fetchwill return: +refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master

it is stored in the .git/config file

[remote "origin"]    url = https://abc-swt.visualstudio.com/abc/_git/efg    fetch = +refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master

which happens when clone the repo with the --single-branchor when do shadow clone: git clone --depth 100 but does not explicitly set the --no-single-branch switch,because the --depth implies --single-branch unless --no-single-branch is given to fetch the histories near the tips of all branches.If you want to clone submodules shallowly, also pass --shallow-submodules.

To save your life, do shadow clone like this: git clone --no-single-branch --shallow-submodules --depth=1000 <repo_url>or git clone --no-single-branch --shallow-submodules --shallow-since=2023-08-08 <repo_url>

we need to change it with:git config remote.origin.fetch "+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*"then we can do it simply:

git fetchgit checkout branchName