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

Branches in git are pointers to commits (that move), and so having a branch as a subdirectory is not possible.

To be fair, git co gh-pages is not much harder than cd ../gh-pages