Pull to a remote branch that doesn't exist on my local

You must first do a fetch

git fetch <remoto> <rama>

Fetch fetches the remote branch, in your case your partner's, and stores it inside<remoto>/<rama>

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

The problem with pullhow you phrase it in your question is that it does both fetch and mergeauto-fetch from that branch to the branch where it is currently located.

For your specific case you would do:

git fetch feature validateEmail

Then you go into that remote branch with:

git checkout feature/validateEmail

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

You would have to 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

git fetch documentation

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

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