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Git clone a branch, not master

I use Git Bash for bitbucket. I have created a branch and I pushed some commits, other people pushed commits in master. Now I am on a different machine. I want to clone or download the solution of the latest commit of my branch and not the master? How can I do that?

Solution

  • I think you are looking for the --branch option to git clone, which allows you to specify which branch is initially checked out in the cloned repository.

    git clone --branch mybranch $URL/foo

    is roughly equivalent to 

    git clone $URL/foo
cd foo
git checkout mybranch
cd ..