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  • How do i clone only "master" branch [ default protected branch? ] of repo?
  • what are the advantages & disadvantages?
  • how do i remove all other branches except master of forked repo?
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When you clone a repo only one branch is pulled from the remote, main by default so I don't understand your question. Cloning and forking are two different things. Clone is basically pulling a git project to your local computer where forking will create a copy of a repo (with all the branches) to another repo).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@shugzaurus

When you clone a repo only one branch is pulled from the remote, main by default

No. I havent read book recommended by @[email protected], but github cheatsheet $ git clone [url] says all branches https://training.github.com/downloads/github-git-cheat-sheet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It downloads the branches meaning that it will download the list of the branches that exist, but only one branch is "checked out" at a time, which is where the files are actually downloaded to your pc.