Pull remote branch into local repo with different name?

Question

Alright I did a little bit of research on this but I couldn't find an exact answer, so I have to ask.

I have 2 remotes: origin and repo2.

I'd like to do something like

git pull repo2 master

But this would pull the master branch of the repo2 into my master. Can I specify a different branch to pull into, for my local branch ?

Answer 1

git checkout -b myBranchName repo2/master

Answer 2

The git pull command is a convenience function that does git fetch and git merge. If you only want retrieve branches from a new remote without trying to merge it into any working copy branch you can just use git fetch. You can then refer to git branch -av to see all the local and remote branches and operate on either remote as you like.