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I have to clone a big repository from GitHub and I don't need to get all the branches but only the master and another. I know there is the command 

git clone --single-branch

but of course this command only works with one branch.

Is there a good way to go about doing this?

rafgru
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To clone the first branch you use

git clone --single-branch --branch master URL myclone

To get the second branch, you must change the configuration of the new repostitory:

cd myclone
git config --add remote.origin.fetch +refs/heads/foo:refs/remotes/origin/foo

This tells Git that it should also track branch foo of the remote repository. Now you do

git fetch

to get the other branch into your clone.

j6t
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