NAME
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-git-clone - Clones a repository
+git-clone - Clone a repository into a new directory
SYNOPSIS
[verse]
'git-clone' [--template=<template_directory>] [-l [-s]] [-q] [-n] [--bare]
[-o <name>] [-u <upload-pack>] [--reference <repository>]
- [--depth=<depth>] <repository> [<directory>]
+ [--depth <depth>] <repository> [<directory>]
DESCRIPTION
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Clones a repository into a newly created directory, creates
remote-tracking branches for each branch in the cloned repository
-(visible using `git branch -r`), and creates and checks out a master
-branch equal to the cloned repository's master branch.
+(visible using `git branch -r`), and creates and checks out an initial
+branch equal to the cloned repository's currently active branch.
After the clone, a plain `git fetch` without arguments will update
all the remote-tracking branches, and a `git pull` without
arguments will in addition merge the remote master branch into the
-current branch.
+current master branch, if any.
This default configuration is achieved by creating references to
the remote branch heads under `$GIT_DIR/refs/remotes/origin` and
if unset the templates are taken from the installation
defined default, typically `/usr/share/git-core/templates`.
---depth=<depth>::
+--depth <depth>::
Create a 'shallow' clone with a history truncated to the
specified number of revs. A shallow repository has
number of limitations (you cannot clone or fetch from
+
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$ git clone -l -s -n . ../copy
-$ cd copy
+$ cd ../copy
$ git show-branch
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