Essential git branching

List (all) branches

$ git branch -a
* master
 origin/foo
 origin/bar

Change to a existing remote branch

Make the branch locally available:

$ git branch --track foo origin/foo
Branch foo set up to track remote branch foo from origin.

Move to local branch ‘foo’:

$ git checkout foo
Switched to branch 'foo'
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/foo.