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Tekkub

More options Aug 22 2008, 9:20 pm

From: Tekkub <tek...@gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:20:17 -0600

Local: Fri, Aug 22 2008 9:20 pm

Subject: Re: clone only pulls down master branch

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Ah, the classic case of finding your answer just after you give up and send
off an email.

git-clone should pull down all the remote branches, you shouldn't need that
fetch call. After it pulls those down, however, it creates only a local
branch named "master"... so you have to create any other local branches you
want.

--tek

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:12 PM, LinPan <ell...@onehouse.net> wrote:

> Ahhh, I got it. I found a tech note that talks about how to checkout
> another branch from a remote repository. Here it is, in case this is
> helpful to anyone else:

> $ git clone http://www.example.com/~username/git/repo-name<http://www.example.com/%7Eusername/git/repo-name>
> $ cd repo-name
> $ git fetch
> $ git checkout --track -b mybranch origin/remote-branch-name

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