Alright, so I need to fork a project, clone it, and what not. Thing is the master branch is 2000 or so commits ahead of the branch I need to be using. How do I fork a branch and not the main repo.
I forked it and I realized I had forked the master branch. I do a git pull origin 2-0-stable and there are tons of merge conflicts. Uh oh.
All I want to do is have another branch beside master that is the exact same as the one up on the repo.
You should checkout the other branch:
git checkout origin 2-0-stable
Git will automatically detect that you don't have a local branch with that name, but you have a remote branch with that name. It will create a local branch 2-0-stable which will be the same as origin/2-0-stable and will have tracking configured.
If you want to be in this state from the beginning you should git clone with the --branch option.
git clone --branch 2-0-stable <git url>
This will clone the repo, but will directly check out the specified branch.
