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laptoplinux
June 30th, 2008, 06:39 PM
I have a project that I'm using git with. At the moment, I have a master branch and an experimental branch on my local git repo. I also have a remote bare git repo on a backup server.

After pushing my current master and experimental branches to the remote server, I tested things by creating a new directory on my desktop and cloning the remote git repo there. The problem is, it only picked up the master branch, and I can't figure out how to get a cloning operation to even acknowledge the experimental branch.

I've only been using git for a couple of days now, so I still know almost nothing about it. What am I doing wrong? What do I need to do to make sure that I get all remote branches pulled in to a local directory?

I have performed this test a few times before when I only had a master branch, and things worked fine.

laptoplinux
July 1st, 2008, 12:01 PM
Ok, I understand now. It only pulls the master branch by default. I have to go in and explicitly pull the other branches later.