How do I clone a single branch in Git?

Note: the git1.7.10 (April 2012) actually allows you to clone only one branch: (<url> is the URL if the remote repository, and does not reference itself the branch cloned) You can see it in t5500-fetch-pack.sh: Tobu comments that: This is implicit when doing a shallow clone.This makes git clone –depth 1 the easiest way to save bandwidth. And since Git 1.9.0 (February 2014), shallow clones … Read more

Git: Merge a Remote branch locally

You can reference those remote tracking branches ~(listed with git branch -r) with the name of their remote. You need to fetch the remote branch: If you want to merge one of those remote branches on your local branch: Note 1: For a large repo with a long history, you will want to add the –depth=1 option when you … Read more

Your configuration specifies to merge with the from the remote, but no such ref was fetched.?

What this means Your upstream—the remote you call origin—no longer has, or maybe never had (it’s impossible to tell from this information alone) a branch named feature/Sprint4/ABC-123-Branch. There’s one particularly common reason for that: someone (probably not you, or you’d remember) deleted the branch in that other Git repository. What to do This depends on what you want. … Read more

git pull from master into the development branch

The steps you listed will work, but there’s a longer way that gives you more options: The fetch command can be done at any point before the merge, i.e., you can swap the order of the fetch and the checkout, because fetch just goes over to the named remote (origin) and says to it: “gimme everything you have that I … Read more