Creating local git repo from remote

Question

I have a remote git repo hosted in gitlab. It's got a few branches off of it already.

I am trying to pull down these branches to a local repo to work on them. For the life of me I cannot figure out how.

This seems like it should be easy but I cannot find an answer. Please let me know where I can clarify.

Does this answer your question? [Clone a repository from GitHub](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53665389/clone-a-repository-from-github) — Joachim Sauer, Apr 07 '21 at 21:28
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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 07 '21 at 21:25

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one way is using

$ git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-REPOSITORY

it downloads all your source code and all of your branches. then you can use

$ git checkout <existing_branch>

in order to change your current branch. you can find out more information on cloning inside here

answered Apr 07 '21 at 21:25

SeAlGhz

Yep that did it... I was using git switch instead of checkout. Cheers – Thomas Duquemin Apr 07 '21 at 21:51
@ThomasDuquemin using switch should work as well? – evolutionxbox Apr 07 '21 at 23:10

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