diff --git a/app/Controller/ServersController.php b/app/Controller/ServersController.php
index 16bd050da..e8d5af99c 100644
--- a/app/Controller/ServersController.php
+++ b/app/Controller/ServersController.php
@@ -1823,9 +1823,19 @@ class ServersController extends AppController
         $result = $this->Server->checkoutMain();
     }
 
-    public function update()
+    public function update($branch = false)
     {
         if ($this->request->is('post')) {
+            $branch = false;
+            $filterData = array(
+                'request' => $this->request,
+                'named_params' => $this->params['named'],
+                'paramArray' => ['branch'],
+                'ordered_url_params' => @compact($paramArray),
+                'additional_delimiters' => PHP_EOL
+            );
+            $exception = false;
+            $settings = $this->_harvestParameters($filterData, $exception);
             $status = $this->Server->getCurrentGitStatus();
             $raw = array();
             if (empty($status['branch'])) { // do not try to update if you are not on branch
@@ -1833,7 +1843,7 @@ class ServersController extends AppController
                 $raw[] = $msg;
                 $update = $msg;
             } else {
-                $update = $this->Server->update($status, $raw);
+                $update = $this->Server->update($status, $raw, $settings);
             }
             if ($this->_isRest()) {
                 return $this->RestResponse->viewData(array('results' => $raw), $this->response->type());
diff --git a/app/Model/Server.php b/app/Model/Server.php
index d45cca956..07352b498 100644
--- a/app/Model/Server.php
+++ b/app/Model/Server.php
@@ -3924,7 +3924,7 @@ class Server extends AppModel
         return implode('\n', $result);
     }
 
-    public function update(array $status, &$raw = array())
+    public function update(array $status, &$raw = [], array $settings = [])
     {
         $final = '';
         $workingDirectoryPrefix = 'cd $(git rev-parse --show-toplevel) && ';
@@ -3943,7 +3943,18 @@ class Server extends AppModel
             );
             $final .= implode("\n", $output) . "\n\n";
         }
-        $command1 = $workingDirectoryPrefix . 'git pull origin ' . $status['branch'] . ' 2>&1';
+        if (!empty($settings['branch'])) {
+            $branchname = preg_match('/$[a-z0-9\_]+/i', $settings['branch']);
+            $checkout_command = $workingDirectoryPrefix . 'git checkout ' . escapeshellarg($branchname) . ' 2>&1';
+            exec($checkout_command, $output, $returnCode);
+            $raw[] = array(
+                'input' => $command1,
+                'output' => $output,
+                'status' => $returnCode,
+            );
+            $status = $this->getCurrentGitStatus();
+        }
+        $command1 = $workingDirectoryPrefix . 'git pull origin ' . escapeshellarg($status['branch']) . ' 2>&1';
         $command2 = $workingDirectoryPrefix . 'git submodule update --init --recursive 2>&1';
         $final .= $command1 . "\n\n";
         $returnCode = false;