[Hands-On: `remote-branch-pull`] T8L2: Work with a branch that existed in the remote

[damithc]

HP_ID: see issue subject

Lesson: https://git-mastery.github.io/lessons/remoteBranchPull

Hands-on setup

Hands-on name: {{ HP_ID }}
Requires Git? (defaults to y)  [y/N]: y
Requires Github? (defaults to y)  [y/N]: y

1. Fork https://github.com/git-mastery/samplerepo-company to student's account as gitmastery-samplerepo-company (all branches should be copied)
2. Clone the fork as samplerepo-company
3. Tweak the repo, as follows:

git switch -c hiring
echo "Receptionist: Pam" >> employees.txt
git commit -am "Add Pam to employees.txt"
git push origin -u hiring

Instructions for students

Continue with the samplerepo-company from the previous hands-on practical, or run gitmastery download {{ HP_ID }} to create a fresh sandbox for this practical.

[VikramGoyal23]

The result of running git branch -a is slightly different:
Expected:

* hiring
  main
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/main
  remotes/origin/hiring
  remotes/origin/main
  remotes/origin/track-sales

Actual:

* hiring
  main
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/main
  remotes/origin/hiring
  remotes/origin/main
  remotes/origin/track-sales
  remotes/upstream/main

While the upstream/main branch is not required for this exercise, we could still explain in brief to the students the reason for its existence/tell them to ignore it for the time being.

Everything else LGTM.

[jovnc]

I followed the steps and it seems to be correct, perhaps you are using gh CLI which adds upstream remote by default, instead we should use clone_repo_with_git

[VikramGoyal23]

Ah, good catch!