Git clone a branch, not master

Question

I use Git Bash for bitbucket. I have created a brunch 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 1

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 ..

Solution 2

if you use git you can do that easily with git clone -b <name_of_branch> <URL_Repository>, if you want to pull do git pull origin <name_of_branch> <URL_Repository> .

Regards

Solution 3

You can use below solution:-

Step1: Clone the repo by using below command following by credentials.

git clone <Repository URL>

Step 2: checkout the branch and pull the latest code from there.

git checkout -b <your origin branch>

Step 3: pull the latest code

git pull origin <your origin branch name where latest code is available>

Comments

[mister_giga]

I get merge conflicts at the step 3

[mister_giga]

yes but I have no solution at all, where and how should I mention the repository URL?

[mister_giga]

what am i supposed to do

[czar008]

I edited my question, the URL goes after the branch name, about you merge conflicts, probably you already have a working copy with changes of other user and need to stash your changes in order to get the latest changes in the branch repository you can do this with git stash in the folder of your working copy

[Anas Ansari]

@mister_giga I am stuck here too. Were you able to solve it?