Cloning specific branch

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I am new to git version control and I dont know how to clone   pull a specific branch of a repo   Trying to get the branch master of the project  but it defaults to branch test 1  I have tried using the command git clone but it grabbed default test 1  I have also tried reading other questions but the commands are confusing me and I dont want to break anything   How do i clone the master branch of this project so i can make changes and push to it

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You can use the following flags --single-branch  amp  amp  --depth to download the specific branch and to limit the amount of history which will be downloaded   You will clone the repo from a certain point in time and only for the given branch  git clone -b  lt branch gt  --single-branch  lt url gt  --depth  lt number of commits gt       -- no- single-branch            Clone only the history leading to the tip of a single branch     either specified by the --branch option or the primary branch remote   s HEAD points at        Further fetches into the resulting repository will only update the remote-tracking branch for the branch this option was used for the initial cloning  If the HEAD at the remote did not point at any branch when --single-branch clone was made  no remote-tracking branch is created         --depth       Create a shallow clone with a history truncated to the specified number of commits

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a git repository has several branches  Each branch follows a development line  and it has its origin in another branch at some point in time  except the first branch  typically called master  that it starts as the default branch until someone changes  what almost never happens   If you are new with git  remember those 2 fundamentals  Now  you just need to clone the repository  and it will be in some branch  if the branch is the one you are looking for  awesome  If not  you just need to change to the other branch - this is called checkout  Just type git checkout  lt branch-name gt   In some cases you want to get updates for a specific branch  Just do git pull origin  lt branch-name gt  and it will  download  the new commits  changes   If you didn t do any changes  it should go easy  If you also introduced changes on that branches  conflicts may appear  let me know if you need more info on this case also

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To clone a particular branch in a git repository  - Command  git clone  repository url  -b  branch name   - Example  git clone https   gitlab com amm kazi yusufoverseas git -b routes

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Please try like this   git clone --single-branch --branch  lt branchname gt   lt url gt    replace  lt branchname gt  with your branch and  lt url gt   with your url   url will be like http   username git test com portno yourrepo git

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You may try this   git clone --single-branch --branch  lt branchname gt  host  dir git

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you can use this command for particular branch clone    git clone  lt url of repo gt  -b  lt branch name to be cloned gt   Eg  git clone https   www github com Repo FirstRepo -b master

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I don t think you fully understand how git by default gives you all history of all branches   git clone --branch master  lt URL gt  will give you what you want   But in fact  in any of the other repos where you ended up with test 1 checked out  you could have just done git checkout master and it would have switched you to the master branch    What  CodeWizard says is all true  I just think it s more advanced than what you really need

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