I am trying to pull from a repository in Github. But I don't want to clone the master branch. I want to clone some other branch. When I try git clone <url>, I get the files from the master branch. What should I do?
Also, suppose the code is updated in the repository and I want to get the latest code, should I again use git clone ? Because the size of the project is huge. Also if I make changes to the project locally, and then I again use git clone, will the changes I made still be there? What if I don't want changes to be there?
I am not even sure if git clone is the right command. git pull or git fetch?
I am sorry, I am very new to git.
Try this:
git init
git fetch url-to-repo branchname:refs/remotes/origin/branchname
EDIT
A better solution:
git clone -b mybranch --single-branch git://sub.domain.com/repo.git