Git -> Taking clone from a specific remote branch and raising PR request to that branch

It might be that sometime in a project, someone will say, you to take a clone from a specific branch (not from master) and will request you to push your changes or raise PR for that branch. In such situation, below commands can help you:

1. First check all the branches in remote 

git branch -r

It will show you all the branches available in remote. It should have the requested branch also.

2. For example, here I am creating a new branch development.

3. Now when I will do git branch -r , then it will show me this branch. (Git pull is pre-requisite here)

4. Now what I will do is, I will create a local branch which will point to development branch.

git branch development_deepak origin/development

What it does is: It creates a local branch with the name specified by you which will track the remote branch specified by you. 

Note: It does not switch to that newly created branch. You still remains in master.

5. Now you need to switch to that created branch.

git checkout development_deepak (my local branch)

6. Now in this branch, when you will push, then there are 2 options:

1-> If you want to create a branch in remote (same local branch name), then use : (Recommended)

git push origin HEAD

What it will do, is create a branch in rmeote with your changes. Now you can raise your PR for this branch changes.

2->  git push origin HEAD:development

It will directly push the changes to the remote branch you were tracking. (If you have the permission)