New GitHub Branch Not Appearing in Visual Studio Code

In this post, we will look at why a new GitHub branch is not showing up in your Visual Studio Code project.

Let’s create a new branch in our GitHub project called mynewbranch:

Now, pulling changes won’t get the new branch:

If you Fetch, it will pull down the branch:

Alternatively, from the console you can run:

git fetch –all

This will fetch the latest branches:

Clicking on the branch name in the bottom left will display the branches at the top:

Where you can change to the new branch:

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Carl de Souza Enterprise Architect at Microsoft · AI Technology Expert