Clone from a branch other than master

Question

I am trying to pull from a repository in Github. But I don\'t want to clone the master branch. I want to clone some other branch. When I try git clone ,

Answer 1

git clone 

clones and creates remote-tracking branches for each branch. If you want to see available branches (after cloning), you type

git branch -l

To switch to a particular branch after cloning you do:

git checkout 

where branchname is the name of the branch :)

If you want to clone and checkout a specific branch you do

git clone -b  

The other commands you mention are for "updating" your current working copy. git pull gets all changes from the remote repository and merges them while git fetchonly gets them without merging.