Try this:

    git init
    git fetch url-to-repo branchname:refs/remotes/origin/branchname

**EDIT**

A better solution:

    git clone -b mybranch --single-branch git://sub.domain.com/repo.git

    git clone &lt;url&gt;
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 &lt;branchname&gt;

where branchname is the name of the branch :)

If you want to clone and checkout a specific branch you do
    
    git clone -b &lt;branchname&gt; &lt;url&gt;

The other commands you mention are for &quot;updating&quot; your current working copy. `git pull` gets all changes from the remote repository and merges them while `git fetch`only gets them without merging.

use `git clone --branch &lt;name&gt;` possibly adding `--single-branch`

as usual you have `git clone --help` to read details on commands

If you already cloned the repo and want to **contribute to the branch other than master**, do this:

    $ git checkout --track origin/&lt;branch-name&gt;


----------


*Of course, be sure to specify the right name of the remote (origin in the example above)*

This command will create a new local branch that will track a particular remote branch.

I&#39;ve been trying to wrap my head around the new `Object.create` method which was introduced in ECMAScript 5.

Usually when I want to use inheritance I do something like this:

    var Animal = function(name) { this.name = name; }
    Animal.prototype.print = function() { console.log(this.name); }
    
    var Dog = function() 
    { 
      return Animal.call(this, &#39;Dog&#39;); 
    }
    
    Dog.prototype = new Animal();
    Dog.prototype.bark = function() { console.log(&#39;bark&#39;); }

I just assign a newly created Animal object to Dog&#39;s prototype and everything works like a charm:

    var dog1 = new Dog();
    dog1.print(); // prints &#39;Dog&#39;
    dog1.bark(); // prints &#39;bark&#39;
    dog1.name; //prints &#39;Dog&#39;

but people(without explaining) are saying that `Dog.prototype = new Animal();` is not the way inheritance works and that I should use Object.create approach:

    Dog.prototype = Object.create(Animal.prototype);

which also works. 

What&#39;s the benefit of using `Object.create` or am I missing something?


**UPDATE: Some say that `Dog.prototype = Animal.prototype;` can also work. So now I&#39;m totally confused**

Benefits of using `Object.create` for inheritance

I&#39;ve implemented a REST/CRUD backend by following this article as an example: http://coenraets.org/blog/2012/10/creating-a-rest-api-using-node-js-express-and-mongodb/ . I have MongoDB running locally, I&#39;m not using MongoLabs.

I&#39;ve followed the Google tutorial that uses ngResource and a Factory pattern and I have query (GET all items), get an item (GET), create an item (POST), and delete an item (DELETE) working.  I&#39;m having difficulty implementing PUT the way the backend API wants it -- a PUT to a URL that includes the id (.../foo/&lt;ID&gt;) and also includes the updated data.

I have this bit of code to define my services:

    angular.module(&#39;realmenServices&#39;, [&#39;ngResource&#39;]).
        factory(&#39;RealMen&#39;, function($resource){
        return $resource(&#39;http://localhost\\:3000/realmen/:entryId&#39;, {}, {
          query: {method:&#39;GET&#39;, params:{entryId:&#39;&#39;}, isArray:true},
          post: {method:&#39;POST&#39;},
          update: {method:&#39;PUT&#39;},
          remove: {method:&#39;DELETE&#39;}
        });

I call the method from this controller code:

    $scope.change = function() {
        RealMen.update({entryId: $scope.entryId}, function() {
                $location.path(&#39;/&#39;);
        });
    }

but when I call the update function, the URL does not include the ID value: it&#39;s only &quot;/realmen&quot;, not &quot;/realmen/ID&quot;.

I&#39;ve tried various solutions involving adding a &quot;RealMen.prototype.update&quot;, but still cannot get the entryId to show up on the URL.  (It also looks like I&#39;ll have to build the JSON holding just the DB field values myself -- the POST operation does it for me automatically when creating a new entry, but there doesn&#39;t seem to be a data structure that only contains the field values when I&#39;m viewing/editing a single entry).

Is there an example client app that uses all four verbs in the expected RESTful way?

I&#39;ve also seen references to Restangular and another solution that overrides $save so that it can issue either a POST or PUT (http://kirkbushell.me/angular-js-using-ng-resource-in-a-more-restful-manner/).  This technology seems to be changing so rapidly that there doesn&#39;t seem to be a good reference solution that folks can use as an example.

Angular JS: Full example of GET/POST/DELETE/PUT client for a REST/CRUD backend?

I am trying to pull from a repository in Github. But I don&#39;t want to clone the master branch. I want to clone some other branch. When I try `git clone &lt;url&gt;`, I get the files from the master branch. What should I do?

Also, suppose the code is updated in the repository and I want to get the latest code, should I again use `git clone` ? Because the size of the project is huge. Also if I make changes to the project locally, and then I again use git clone, will the changes I made still be there? What if I don&#39;t want changes to be there?

I am not even sure if `git clone` is the right command. `git pull` or `git fetch`?

I am sorry, I am very new to git.

Git: Clone from a branch other than master

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 <code>git clone &#x3C;url></code>, I get the files from the master branch. What should I do?
Also, suppose the code is updated in the repository and I want to get the latest code, should I again use <code>git clone</code> ? Because the size of the project is huge. Also if I make changes to the project locally, and then I again use git clone, will the changes I made still be there? What if I don't want changes to be there?
I am not even sure if <code>git clone</code> is the right command. <code>git pull</code> or <code>git fetch</code>?
I am sorry, I am very new to git.

On my branch I had some files in .gitignore

On a different branch those files are not.

I want to merge the different branch into mine, and I don&#39;t care if those files are no longer ignored or not.

Unfortunately I get this: 

&gt; The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge

How would I modify my pull command to overwrite those files, without me having to find, move or delete those files myself?

The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge, but I don&#39;t care

I have a web application that explores other web applications in a particular way. It contains some web demos in a `demos` folder and one of the demo should now have it&#39;s own repository. I would like to create a separate repository for this demo application and make it a &lt;del&gt;subpackage&lt;/del&gt; [submodule][1] from main repository without losing its commit history.

*Is it possible to keep the commit history from the files in a repository&#39;s folder and create a repository from it and use it as a [submodule][1] instead?*

  [1]: http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Tools-Submodules

Create a submodule repository from a folder and keep its git commit history

I&#39;m writing a shell script and I&#39;m looking to checkout the latest version of repo. Specifically I want to break this process apart into multiple steps.

 1. I want to save the repositories latest tag into a variable 
 2. Print out `Checking out version: XX`
 3. Checkout the latest tag

I&#39;ve seen [similar questions](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7123592/determine-latest-received-git-tag) but I don&#39;t see how to save the name of the tag into a variable (probably because I&#39;m a noob with shell scripts).

Git Checkout Latest Tag

I have a git repository with two branches: `master` and `gh-pages`. If I want to copy a file `foo` from `master` to `gh-pages` without merging them. What command should I use? Many thanks.

How can I copy files from a branch to another using git?

I am a Composer beginner and I am trying to make one project dependent of another one, while both project only exist on my local machine. 


The composer.json in my library project (ProjectA) is:

&lt;!-- language: lang-json --&gt;

    {
    	&quot;name&quot; : &quot;project/util&quot;,
    	&quot;type&quot; : &quot;library&quot;
    }
I initialized git in the base folder of this project. 

My composer.json in the project depending on the first one (ProjectB):

&lt;!-- language: lang-json --&gt;

    {
    	&quot;repositories&quot;: [
    		{
    			&quot;name&quot; : &quot;util&quot;, 
    			&quot;type&quot; : &quot;git&quot;,
    			&quot;url&quot; : &quot;/d/workspaces/util&quot;
    		}	
    	],
    	
    	&quot;require&quot;: {
    		&quot;project/util&quot; : &quot;*&quot;
    	},
    }

When I run `composer install` from ProjectB, I get the following error:

&gt;     [RuntimeException]
&gt;     Failed to clone , could not read packages from it
&gt;     fatal: repository &#39;&#39; does not exist

I asume something is wrong with the url of the repository, but I am not sure what else to write there. 




Composer - using a local repository

I am new to git as well as github. I set up a repo on github, and I can push local stuff to this remote repo. Now here is the question: just after I push something to the remote repo, and I refresh the page, I can see the changes are uploaded(for example, if I wrote a readme.txt and push it to the remote repo, where such a readme.txt did not exist, after push and refresh the page, it appears).

So can anybody change my repo on github freely? Or if I push something to linux kernal, can the changes I made be added to it and public for all?


Can anybody push to my project on github?

Trying to install modules from GitHub results in this error:

&gt; ENOENT error on package.json.

Easily reproduced using express:

`npm install https://github.com/visionmedia/express` throws error.

`npm install express ` works.

Why can&#39;t I install from GitHub?

Here is the console output:

    npm http GET https://github.com/visionmedia/express.git
    npm http 200 https://github.com/visionmedia/express.git
    npm ERR! not a package /home/guym/tmp/npm-32312/1373176518024-0.6586997057311237/tmp.tgz
    npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, open &#39;/home/guym/tmp/npm-32312/1373176518024-0.6586997057311237/package/package.json&#39;
    npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this log at:
    npm ERR!     &lt;http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues&gt;
    npm ERR! or email it to:
    npm ERR!     &lt;npm-@googlegroups.com&gt;

    npm ERR! System Linux 3.8.0-23-generic
    npm ERR! command &quot;/usr/bin/node&quot; &quot;/usr/bin/npm&quot; &quot;install&quot; &quot;https://github.com/visionmedia/express.git&quot;
    npm ERR! cwd /home/guym/dev_env/projects_GIT/proj/somename
    npm ERR! node -v v0.10.10
    npm ERR! npm -v 1.2.25
    npm ERR! path /home/guym/tmp/npm-32312/1373176518024-0.6586997057311237/package/package.json
    npm ERR! code ENOENT
    npm ERR! errno 34
    npm ERR!
    npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
    npm ERR!     /home/guym/dev_env/projects_GIT/proj/somename/npm-debug.log
    npm ERR! not ok code 0




How to install an npm package from GitHub directly

I have code in Eclipse that I&#39;d like to upload to GitHub but so far I can&#39;t figure out how. It says &quot;create a repository&quot; but that looks more like a folder that holds your projects and I&#39;m not sure how to upload my code to it. Apologies for the seemingly dumb question. Also, how does one delete repositories? Didn&#39;t see a way to do that either.

How Do I Upload Eclipse Projects to GitHub?

I have been using GitHub for a little while, and I have been fine with `git add`, `git commit`, and `git push`, so far without any problems. Suddenly I am having an error that says:

&gt; fatal: Authentication Failed

In the terminal I cloned a repository, worked on a file and then I used `git add` to add the file to the commit log and when I did `git commit`, it worked fine. Finally, `git push` asks for username and password. I put those in correctly and every time I do this, it says the same error.

What is the cause of this problem and how can I fix it?

The contents of `.git/config` are:

    [core]
            repositoryformatversion = 0
            filemode = true
            bare = false
            logallrefupdates = true
    [remote &quot;origin&quot;]
            url = http://www.github.com/######/Random-Python-Tests
            fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
    [branch &quot;master&quot;]
            remote = origin
            merge = refs/heads/master
    [user]
            name = #####
            email = ############





Git push results in &quot;Authentication Failed&quot;

Is there a way to control the order in which files appear in a gist? They don&#39;t seem to be alphabetical or chronological. I&#39;d like to have a README.md appear as the first file in [a multi-file gist](https://gist.github.com/Sinetheta/6003037), but no amount of &quot;deleting&quot; a file and re-adding it seems to change anything.

Is there an order to these files that I&#39;m not seeing, or does GitHub maintain an internal filetype priority list?

How do you control the order in which files appear in a GitHub gist

Can anyone please tell me why i have the grey icon when i push my files to github ? In side the app directory, there should be models, views , and controllers but in the remote GitHub I can&#39;t click in. 

![enter image description here][1]


  [1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/zOGCV.png

What does a grey icon in remote GitHub mean

GitHub distributes a simplified Git client for Windows they call GitHub for Windows; it authenticates via GitHub account, and although it usually uses HTTPS remotes for local repositories it creates, [if you tell it to use an existing local repository that has an SSH remote on GitHub, it will use your GitHub credentials to set up an SSH key on the GitHub account for itself][1]. But where does it keep the SSH key in the filesystem?

  [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20150405010324/https://help.github.com/articles/do-i-need-ssh-keys-to-use-github-for-windows




Where does GitHub for Windows keep its SSH key?

While working on a project using GitHub I&#39;ve fallen in love with GitHub for Windows as a client. Now a new project beckons where I&#39;ll be using GitLab instead of GitHub.

Will I still be able to use GitHub for Windows as a client for GitLab? After all, they&#39;re both based on git, right? If not, what clients are available for GitLab?

Does GitHub for Windows work with GitLab?

How do I install Git in my `PATH` when using the GitHub client for Windows?

I&#39;m running into errors because apparently Git is not installed in PATH. For example, using Atom, trying to install the Linter plugin gives this error:

    npm ERR! not found: git
    npm ERR! 
    npm ERR! Failed using git.
    npm ERR! This is most likely not a problem with npm itself.
    npm ERR! Please check if you have git installed and in your PATH.

Does GitHub for Windows install Git when it installs? (It must, otherwise how does it use Git?) I don&#39;t want to double-install it... so how do I just add the Git that&#39;s already there to PATH?

Git: Installing Git in PATH with GitHub client for Windows

Last week I upgraded my Windows Github to [Github Desktop][1].

It is certainly a lot faster than that last update they made for Github Windows. It also has a nice little visual timeline of commits and maybe I am being dumb, but **the ability to delete local branches seems to be gone**. 

Before it was under “manage branches” (also gone). Any idea?

 

**Update:** 

In [v3.0.5][2] they have added the option to delete local branches from the gear menu.
[![enter image description here][3]][3]


  [1]: https://desktop.github.com/
  [2]: https://desktop.github.com/release-notes/windows/
  [3]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/00qtA.jpg

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Git: Clone from a branch other than master

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Solution 1 - Git

Solution 2 - Git

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Angular JS: Full example of GET/POST/DELETE/PUT client for a REST/CRUD backend?

Benefits of using `Object.create` for inheritance

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