Have a look at the "Using VCS Sources" part of the PKGBUILD(5) man-page: https://jlk.fjfi.cvut.cz/arch/manpages/man/PKGBUILD.5#USING_VCS_SOURCES You can just specify the source as this: `git+https://.../mypackage.git#branch=develop` That way you directly get the contents of `develop` delivered to your sourcedir… On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 9:40 AM Dario Pellegrini via aur-requests wrote:

Uh, how do you switch to a particular upstream branch from which to pick some files without git checkout?

On Fri, 24 Jul 2020, 00:37 , wrote:

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katt [1] filed a deletion request for openscad-mcad-dev-git [2]:

git checkout in package()

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/katt/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/openscad-mcad-dev-git/

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