Git usage for multiple local copies

Question

From my remote repository i am cloning a particular branch using

git clone <URL> -b <branch_name> --single-branch <local_copy_1> 
git clone <URL> -b <branch_name> --single-branch <local_copy_2>

I clone multiple copies of the same branch in my local system.Now how to i do push,fetch,merge or pull w.r.t to each local copies?

I don't understand why you would want that. Why change the same branch in two different copies and then push to the same branch? — TheGeorgeous, Jul 08 '15 at 05:51
because 2 people will be working parallelly in the same machine — nagaraj sherigar, Jul 08 '15 at 06:05

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

You would push it normally, but each repo needs first to synchronize itself with the latest commits pushed on that branch (pushed from the other cloned repo for instance):

git pull --rebase
git push

Note that with Git 2.5 (released next week), you will be able to have multiple working tree (meaning multiple checked out branches, including the same one) for one cloned repo.
See "Multiple working directories with Git?".

Git usage for multiple local copies

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