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I have cloned an ongoing sample project repo from git and its main branch is 'master'. But this repo has all changes uptodate in branch 'develop' and only a 'README.md' file in 'master' branch. I got the master branch cloned using https. I need to get the changes in 'develop' branch. Please help me to figure out.

Pushkar Adhikari
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But this repo has all changes uptodate in branch 'develop' and only a 'README.md' file in 'master' branch

Then clone directly the right branch with git clone -b:

git clone -b develop https://url/of/repo
VonC
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Try this -

This command fetches all branches from remote. git pull --all

This command checkouts the requested branch (if it is present) git checkout develop

Also refer this and this

Pushkar Adhikari
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  • This partially helped to solve my problem by using 'git checkout develop'. Initially when I tried to do so, I got detached state which confused me. Thanks for the help. – newbie Feb 20 '19 at 04:59
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It sounds like you are trying to merge changes from the develop branch to the master branch. Have a look at https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-merge to see if that helps.

Steve Teece
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  • Basically Im not trying to merge, but trying to get the checkout to develop branch to get the changes. I don't need want to merge this to master branch – newbie Feb 20 '19 at 04:53
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When you download a git repo from say GitHub it is defaulted to master. To view a new branch you can checkout to a branch.

Assuming you know the git basics

git checkout <branch-name>

So you should be doing 

git checkout develop

Extra
To view all remote branches 

git branch -r

To list your local branches

git branch

To pull changes from remote to your working tree

git pull #pull downloads "all" by default

To only download all the changes in remote but not to your working tree (the branches you're tracking)

git fetch
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