git: put a branch in a subdirectory

Question

I have a git repository (at github.com) with two branches: master and gh-pages. I would like to have the gh-pages branch in a subdirectory, so that I don\'t need to switch branc

Answer 1

That's not how things are designed to work. You could theoretically clone the repository within a subdirectory of your original clone and mark that directory as excluded from the higher level repository, but wouldn't it be much simpler to just check it out in a completely different directory instead of a subdirectory?

That is to say...

/repo/master/(clone on master branch)

and then another clone that's on the other branch

/repo/gh-pages/(clone on gh-pages branch)