Pull to a remote branch that does not exist in my local

First you must make a fetch

git fetch <remoto> <rama>

Fetch brings the remote branch, in your case that of your partner and stores it within <remoto>/<rama>

Pull is a combination of fetch + merge When you do the fetch you can do checkout to that branch within the remote without mixing it with a local one and then doing merge . Another quick option would also be to create a branch locally, do checkout to that branch and then pull the remote branch.

The problem with pull as expressed in your question, is that it makes both the fetch and a% automatic% of that branch to the branch where it is currently located.

For your specific case, you would do:

git fetch feature validateEmail

Then you enter that remote branch with:

git checkout feature/validateEmail

And you make the changes you need to then do merge with master or with any other branch.

You should do a fetch first

git fetch <remote> <branchremoto>:<branchlocal> 
git checkout <branchlocal>

If your remote is origin:

git fetch origin feature/validateEmail:validateEmail
git checkout validateEmail

Documentation of git-fetch

If what you want to do is in a clone of the repository, you would have to add the repository as remote:

git remote add companiero https://github.com/user/repo.git