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copied!<p>By default <code>git clone</code> would fetch all branches, but those branches would be stored as remote-tracking branches: for example branch 'dev_XXXXX' would be stored as 'origin/dev_XXXXX' (with 'refs/remotes/origin/dev_XXXXX' as full name). Those remote-tracking branches wouldn't be visible in <code>git branch</code> output: you would need <code>git branch -r</code> to list remote-tracking branches (or <code>git branch -a</code> to list all branches). If those branches do not diverge too much from mainline, they wouldn't take too much disk space in repository. Therefore I don't see why you want to clone only selected branches.</p> <p>Nevertheless if you want to have a clone with only two selected branches, you can do it like this:</p> <ol> <li><p>First, create new empty repository</p> <pre><code>$ mkdir repoclone $ cd repoclone/ $ git init Initialized empty Git repository in /home/user/repoclone/.git/ </code></pre></li> <li><p>Then add your repository under the name 'origin' (just like "git clone" would name it), requesting tracking of only two branches: 'master' and 'dev_swamy', using "<a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-remote.html" rel="noreferrer" title="git-remote(1) Manual Page - manage set of tracked repositories">git remote</a>" command. Check that it was added correctly.</p> <pre><code>$ git remote add -t master -t dev_swamy origin user@example.com:repo.git $ git remote origin $ git remote show origin * remote origin Fetch URL: user@example.com:repo.git Push URL: user@example.com:repo.git HEAD branch: master Remote branches: master new (next fetch will store in remotes/origin) dev_swamy new (next fetch will store in remotes/origin) </code></pre> <p>If the stable branch is called 'stable' rather than 'master', you would have of course to modify above example. Also there is <code>-m <branch></code> option if you want specified branch to be default branch in remote.</p></li> <li><p>Fetch from 'origin' (you could do this also by using <code>-f</code> option to "git remote add" above):</p> <pre><code>$ git fetch remote: Counting objects: 282, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (193/193), done. remote: Total 282 (delta 82), reused 0 (delta 0) Receiving objects: 100% (282/282), 81.30 KiB | 135 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (82/82), done. From user@example.com:repo.git * [new branch] master -> origin/master * [new branch] dev_swamy -> origin/dev_swamy From user@example.com:repo.git * [new tag] v1.0 -> v1.0 * [new tag] v1.0.1 -> v1.0.1 * [new tag] v1.1 -> v1.1 </code></pre></li> <li><p>Set up local branch 'master' (where you would do your work) to follow 'origin/master' (to have 'origin/master' as upstream), just like "git clone" would do:</p> <pre><code>$ git checkout -t origin/master Branch master set up to track remote branch master from origin. Already on 'master' </code></pre> <p>You can repeat this for branch 'dev_swamy'.</p></li> <li><p>Now you can see how config file looks like. <strong>You can get exactly the same result by editing <code>.git/config</code> file to look like the following, and then doing "git fetch"</strong>.</p> <pre><code>$ cat .git/config # or just open this file in your editor [core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true bare = false logallrefupdates = true [remote "origin"] url = user@example.com:repo.git fetch = +refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master fetch = +refs/heads/dev_swamy:refs/remotes/origin/dev_swamy [branch "master"] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/master </code></pre></li> </ol> <p>Don't forget to introduce yourself to Git before starting work on repository (i.e. set 'user.name' and 'user.email' config variables; usually in per-user config file)!</p>

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