How to shift on laravel forge

It sounds like you’ve purchased a Laravel Shift and the changes are available on a special branch (often named something like shift-xxxx). However, you’re not seeing this branch when running git branch -a after git fetch.

Here’s what you should do:

1. Ensure you’re fetching from the correct remote.
   If Laravel Shift created a fork or a pull request, you might need to add their repository as a remote. For example:

   git remote add shift [email protected]:laravel-shift/your-repo.git
   git fetch shift
   

   Replace the URL with the one provided by Laravel Shift.

2. List all remote branches:
   After fetching, list all branches (including remote ones):

   git branch -r
   

   Look for something like shift/shift-xxxx.

3. Check out the Shift branch:
   If you see the branch (e.g., shift/shift-1234), check it out locally:

   git checkout -b shift-1234 shift/shift-1234
   

   This creates a local branch named shift-1234 tracking the remote branch.

4. If you still don’t see the branch:

   • Double-check the Shift instructions. Sometimes, Shift provides a pull request instead of a branch, in which case you can merge the PR via GitHub’s interface.

   • Make sure you’re fetching from the correct remote (your fork vs. the Shift fork).

   • If you received a patch file, you may need to apply it manually:

     git apply path/to/shift.patch
     

Summary:
You’re likely missing the step of adding the Shift remote or fetching from the correct remote. Once you do that, you should be able to see and check out the Shift branch.

If you have further issues, please provide the exact instructions or link you received from Laravel Shift, and I can help you interpret them!